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

You can do too much and oversell your market.

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.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

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.