I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.

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

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

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.