In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'