I've Been Very Lucky, This

We Were The Only Black Family In An Estate With 1,000 White Families. Liverpool Being Quite Racist In The Sixties, It Was A Bit Grim Growing Up.

Coming From Having Absolutely Nothing To Having A Few Grand In The Bank, It Was A Big Culture Leap. I Think That's Why I Went Off The Rails A Bit Really, 'cause There Was No Training For It. They Didn't Do Fame In Schools.

Once Journalists Have Been Rifling Through Your Dustbins, You Do Try And Keep Them At Arms' Length.

It's Not Supposed To Be Easy, If It's Easy, It's No Good, That's The Way I Look At It.

British Fans Are Exceptional, But The American Fans Are Something Else. Some Of Them Fly 500 Miles To Stand In Line For Three Hours, Just To Meet Me, Then When They Do They Collapse.