My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger