“One of the last things she said to me was I have to go, but you don’t have to! So don’t fall with me now!”

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’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.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

I fell in love with the way you wanted more.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

If ever the fall is the ground, someone tell her I’m this close to soil, and I can feel it!

Who are you when all of the things that feed your ego fall away.

Darling, it’s okay to fall again; these bones of yours they already know how to mend.