I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.

I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.

I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.