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There's nobody I look up to, really.
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I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does the music conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.
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She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs - et cetera, et cetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot)
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
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Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
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I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.
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Even the President needs passion.
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Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
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Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?
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There is this power that comes with being famous.
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If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.
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So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.
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You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.
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I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.
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Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.
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I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.
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I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.
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You got amphetamine eyes.
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My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
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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.
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I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
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I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.
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I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.
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Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.