In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.