When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

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

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

Make this man a saint now, OK?

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.