I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

I don't perform. Seals perform.

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.