Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

I can do anything I want to do really, I might as well.

I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

I'm contemplatin' thinkin' about thinkin'...

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

I didnt loose my mind, it was mine to give away

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I'll be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.

I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It's about how you project. I wouldn't consider myself to be a singer.

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.

I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

I enjoy nakedness. I am a bit of a naturist at heart.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

I think there are ghosts. I haven't seen or heard anything. I've definitely felt something, but it's not scary.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away!

I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!