I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak

Everyone likes at least one Elvis song....Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.