Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.