Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

My absolute favorite song I've ever written is "This Is Where We Came In." It's a nudge at younger listeners, cause at one time you could go into a cinema halfway through a film and then stay through and pick up where you left off.

I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.