"I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge ..." — Gilbert O'Sullivan

Success isn't dependent on the market place, because I can't control that. It's about completing a good song.

I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food on the table, clothes to wear. When I wanted a drum kit, my mother got me one. When I got into playing guitar, I came down one Christmas or birthday and there was a guitar for me. It amazes me how Mum managed to do it.