Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

It made me high. It really did.