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.

There's nobody I look up to, really.

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

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

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

All you did was wreck my bed and in the morning kick me in the head.