“Every country I’ve had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.”

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

I havent had a big hit record in America since 1987.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

I’ve never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

I love Tina Turner. I’m one of Tina Turner’s biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.

There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.

My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. “Oh, that’s not necessary,” he replied . “It’s so seldom I have one.

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

You gotta’ sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to… I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy