I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance... It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

Nobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can't know it all.