I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
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'm a person who tries not to have regrets.
I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.
Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.
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.
Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now