I Come From A Coal-mining, Working-class Background.

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.

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.

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.

First Of All, I Love Singing. I Mean, I Get Out Of Bed And I Sing. I Can't Help It.

I Got Married When I Was 16 So I Had To Do Shift-work To Make Ends Meet.