The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Love is the distance between reality and pain.

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.