Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.