I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

It was early detection that saved my voice - and I imagine, my life.

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

I love change, I need it.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

It has gone past me now, the writing phase.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

I don't have any social life or anything.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

I carry lots of guilt.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

Everybody sung in my family.

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

I enjoyed the chase.

I always thought I was so fit.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Women like being kissed.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

I love what I do.

There's no reason why I should retire.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.

I have lived a great life. I am very happy.

Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.