When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.