I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.

When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young.

I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.