Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

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.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.