I like to drink to suit my location.

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

Pussy cat, pussy cat, I love you, yes I do. You and your pussy cat nose.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off!

Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.

I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.

I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.

I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

Elvis was always over the top. That's why he had that gold lamé suit! He designed his jumpsuits himself. He always said, "If you're going to be a star, you should look like one."

I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.

I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

I think the people who really love the way somebody sings, they like to hear it. As long as you don't change your style completely or do something that has nothing to do with what you're known for, which I don't agree with.

People who go out and do hits year after year after year, I think the fans deserve more than that. The audiences deserve more than just that. You need to give them something new, or things you really love to sing. And they love it.

Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.

Music is great; it all depends on what mood you're in, what you want to listen to. If it's party time, you listen to, you know, party music, if you want to dance with somebody. But then again, if it's a slow dance, you need something slow.

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

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