My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love R&B and Motown and all black music, gospel music. But I never dismiss any form of music. I listen to everything.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.