I Was Full Of Fire When I

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.

When You First Start Off, I Know Singers Who Have Only Been In The Business Just A Short Amount Of Time, And They've Already Written Their Autobiography. I Didn't Want To Write It Too Soon. I Wanted To Live A While And Write About Things That I Felt Were Important To Me - Growing Up In Wales, And The Characters That I Met And Listened To.

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.

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, I Love You, Yes I Do. You And Your Pussy Cat Nose.

I Come From A Coal-mining, Working-class Background. My Father Was A Coal Miner.