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

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That’s why I love vegetables, you know what they’re about!

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

It’s good to touch the green, green grass of home.

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 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 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 spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe’s singing until somebody told me that it wasn’t a joke.

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don’t want you singing at my funeral.

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash – a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.

I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped.’ That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for ‘Beautiful’ existed, so obviously I was affected.

I fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

In your song let me be the words & in two we don’t have to sing in thirds.