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Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it’s not bestowed on you by the royal family, it’s not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.
I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people’s songs, way back when, and that’s what I enjoy the most. And I’m a lazy bugger.
Everybody sung in my family.
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family.
What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
I shouldn’t have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, ‘You’re too young to be married’. ‘What? I’m 35’. Said, ‘You’re far too young. You haven’t lived yet’. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.
I can definitely say the older I’ve got the better I’ve become at being a dad and a husband.
I love change, I need it.
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.