The secret of poetry is cruelty.

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.

Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Fashion has changed, and it's continuing to change because, fundamentally, people get bored quicker.