“It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desire. Indeed it will…in a dull man.”

We won best breakthrough video, it meant so much to me to win that award, it was a turning point in my career.

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

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

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,

I’ve always liked to dance – I’ve got a natural rhythm.

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 have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

You can’t be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it’s my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.

It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone, it’s not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it’s not unusual to see me cry. I wanna’ die.

To me when I hear a song, its a positive thing because it reminds me of when I started!

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

Time is a funny old thing isn’t it?! We are all surrounded by it!

I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

I’m a lyric man – I’m always looking for meaningful songs.

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can’t help it.

Well, come gather around and I’ll sing you a song, about a crazy old world that’s coming along.

Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.

To desire is to obtain to aspire is to achieve.

Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.