You Get The Odd Person [in Social

When You're Younger, You Think You're In Competition With Everyone. You Think Everyone's Success Is A Threat To You, And This Is A Thing You Grow Out Of. You Get Older And You Suddenly Realize The Only Person You're In Competition With Is Yourself.

You're Lucky If You Reach The Point Where You Go, "ok, I Have A Wonderful Life ...i Fly Around The World, Stay In Beautiful Places, People Are Generally Quite Sweet To Me, What's To Complain About?" But I Think You Have To Get There... And It's Taken Me The Best Part Of 54 Years To Reach That Point Where I'm Like, "i'm Very Lucky, I'm Lucky, I'm Blessed" - All Of Those Things. I Wish I Could Impart That To Other People But I Think When You're Young, You Just Don't Listen.

You Find Out So Many Interesting Things When You're Not On Drugs.

What Happened During The Previews Of 'taboo' [musical] Was That It Was The First Time I'd Ever Been Written About As A Great Song-writer - I Cried. I Absolutely Wept, Because It Wasn't The Usual Stuff Like, "oh, He Was A Drug Addict And He Did This And That..." It Was Really Looking At The Music And It Was Really Complimentary. It Was A Huge Thing.

A Difficult Crowd Will Always Test Your True Ability.