“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,”

Dont just do something because everybody else is doing it- do it your own way!

Once heard, Never forgotten!

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

I’ve always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I like to drink to suit my location.

You are only a young talent, but we don’t know how old your soul is.

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

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’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.

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

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.

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.