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'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

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.

You are my lover, you're my best friend. You're in my soul.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.