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

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.