All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

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.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.