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I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.