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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

I wasn't ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.