"My hair is massive and fills the mirror."
"I like my face. It's cheeky - dare I say, Chaplinesque."
"I've typical singer's jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but the knife isn't an exciting prospect."
"What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry."
"Do you know what, I don't even like dancing."
"Dancing as a thing to do is marvellous, but you've got to be bloody good at it. I was never good enough."
"I think Bjork is sexy."
"I'm not a golfing man."
"I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was."
"In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do."
"It's nice to feel wanted somewhere."
"Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter."
"I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware."
"I'm impressed with Ed Sheeran. I think he has a terrific point of view and a great mentality but I sense there is someone in the background saying to him, 'We need more love songs, Ed.'"
"You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life."
"There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me."
"The Seventies was a golden era. Back then we had some incredible talent with bands like the Undertones, the Rolling Stones and artists like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney."
"Fame is always a bit crazy. You spend so long banging on the door trying to get in that when it suddenly opens, it's a very strange feeling."
"You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life."
"I have had a partial kneecap replacement, an irritable bowel and three stents in my heart."
"I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there."
"We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well."
"My mum came from an incredibly big family."
"I had to learn very quickly how to perform, how to act, how to look, to always say what I wanted to say in my songs."
"I grew up on the south coast in Shoreham-by-Sea in a three-bedroom semi-detached home with a large garden shared by two properties."
