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.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.

He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

Nature is a language - can't you read?