They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude

Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.