I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

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

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

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.

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

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

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