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

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.

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’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 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.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

It wasn’t you but your soul that caught my attention.

Opportunities don’t wait for you, you have to catch it on time.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

In front of 40,000 people, you don’t really want to drop a catch or misfield. It’s part and parcel of the game.

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

Whenever I catch myself getting too nostalgic, well I just think about how heavy the wigs used to be!