As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

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

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

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!

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.