I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.