When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.