The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.

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.

The less I say the more my work gets done.

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.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

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

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.