But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of the night with a song in my head.

It's getting late have you seen my mates, Ma tell me when the boys get here, It's seven o'clock and I want to rock, Want to get a belly full of beer...