Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.

Pussy cat, pussy cat, I love you, yes I do. You and your pussy cat nose.

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

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.