Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

There is good and bad in everyone.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.