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

The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp

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.

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.

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.

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 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.