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

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 have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

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

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.

Leadership is character in action.

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