If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
[My mother] is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs - by the time I was about 17 - she started to believe in me, musically.
I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.
I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
By our actions we tell Him of our love.
I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.
If one leaves home one might get a flower pot on his head and die.
Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.