Jan 10, 1945 - Present
British rock and pop singer
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Everybody sung in my family.
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
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.
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
I love change, I need it.
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.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
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.
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
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.
I wish I knew what I know now before.