“I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman’s face.”

Depression is something that doesn’t just go away. It’s just… there and you deal with it. It’s like… malaria or something.

Bad things happen sometimes.

I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I’ve learned to really just say no. If I don’t want to do something, I won’t do it. There’s nothing that can make me do anything.

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it’s almost inexplicably awful.

I’m blind without my glasses.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don’t make any money, then you change things.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.

People weren’t buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

Talk to the guys that ain’t doing nothing, don’t talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.

Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I’m in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I’m at work until 8-9 o’clock at night.

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer’s gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…

I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.