I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

I have to keep healthy; otherwise, I jeopardise my career.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn't get pregnant, see?

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Those who practice deserve your respect. If you respect them, you respect yourself. It's easy to be critical, but it does no good. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?