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.

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

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

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

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.

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.