No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

A couple of sounds that I really like are the sounds of a switchblade and a motor bike.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

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.