Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.

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.

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

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

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've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

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.