People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

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.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.