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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.
Like everybody in show business, you think you’re going to wake up one day, and it’s all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business – the ones I talk to, anyway.