I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.