It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British audience to go crazy, simply by them entering the stage because they had a hit record. It just doesn't happen. That happens in America.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.