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

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

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.

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.

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.