People in England are so bloody nosy.

Make this man a saint now, OK?

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

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

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.

You know, it's a very treatable disease. You shouldn't feel ashamed. But I'm afraid that's carried on very much so from the first days of AIDS, when it was basically a gay disease. And then, of course, you know, it affected everybody.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.