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

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

Leadership is character in action.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

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 get influenced by stuff that isn't even music.

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