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

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

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.

Leadership is character in action.

I get influenced by stuff that isn't even music.

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.