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.

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.

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

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

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.

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