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.

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.

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 like to drink to suit my location.

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.

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

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Little things done over and over again add up to making a difference in a big way.

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey.

When your mom placed you in my arms after your birth, little did I know that she was placing you directly in my heart.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.

I've always been wary of marriage.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.

A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

If youre any good at all you know you can be better.

I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying.

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.

One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy.

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.