Deep in December it's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.
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 like to drink to suit my location.
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.
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 come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.
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.
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.
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.
My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.
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've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.
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.
Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.
I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.
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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.
