I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

It's better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.