When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

I must admit, the constant invasion of privacy was becoming a real concern. Ive been asked for autographs while Ive been doing laps in the pool and even in the toilet!

Id been bumming around in bands since my school days.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

Solitude is a greater treasure than wealth.

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.

Children can see the beatitudes in nature.

You learn a lot from the people in your life who value you and for the ones that don't you learn forgiveness~

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

We are the custodians of life's meaning.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.