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.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

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 have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

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

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