I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

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

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

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

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.

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!