Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways.

I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.

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

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