I was never told a thing about sex. So I was very naive, as were my friends as well. But I - me so especially.

Unless you show off you're not going to get noticed.

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

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.