I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

We have a society where every hit maker and TV presenter is gay.

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

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.