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!'

Leadership is character in action.

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

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

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.

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.