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

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

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

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

Leadership is character in action.

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.

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