I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band together, which is a rhythm section, really. I used to do a lot of blues, and rhythm and blues, and '50s rock 'n' roll and country, and all kinds of stuff.