Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.