When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor

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

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.