Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.

Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.