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

Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it," they should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it.

I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.

The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.