I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

I didn't really think that it would be as easy as this. I did believe that the album [Faith] had a chance, because I though the material was strong enough, but things have just gone like clockwork. It's been incredible.