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!'

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.

Leadership is character in action.

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!"