In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.
The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.
I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.
I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.
Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
In the West many Christians have an abundance of material possessions, yet they live in a backslidden state.
Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.
I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.
I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing.
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
