Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

• I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
• At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
• 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.
• You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
• Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.
• I love change, I need it.
• I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
• My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
• I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.