How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.