The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.

I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.