There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

I have an optimistic view of everything. You have to, otherwise you'd go nuts.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.