If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.