A biography for Paul Younghasn’t been written yet.
“I love the road.”
“I did 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Celebrity MasterChef.' I was quite good at those, and did a cookbook.”
“The availability of downloads is fantastic, but you don't know which musicians are playing on the songs anymore. It's kind of making musicians faceless, you don't get musical solos on records anymore. You know who the singer is but it's the poor old musicians who suffer.”
“My parents were still living with my grandparents, on my dad's side, when I was born, but when I was three, we moved to our own house near Luton airport. It was a typical street where the kids all played outside.”
“One of my better qualities is that I accept what's in front of me and deal with it.”
“We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs out of hotel windows. In fact, we carried our own toolbox with us so that if anything got broken, we could nail it back together and not be charged for it.”
“People forget that scenes and fashion trends changed very rapidly during the '80s. We went from glam rock to punk, to new romantic, to flashy sportswear... and this all happened just as I was coming up through the ranks.”
“I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and I may have my ashes scattered in the sea.”
“I'm interested in all types of music.”
“It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you a chance to think.”
“I did part-time jobs until my apprenticeship as a milling machinist at Vauxhall when I was 16. I got £15 a week and I used to give my mum a fiver of that.”
“I've spent all my money on the kids' education.”
“I was in L.A. with my wife in a restaurant, and I spotted my great hero David Bowie at another table. Of course I wasn't going to bother him. Then I felt a tap on my shoulder, and it was Bowie, and he squatted down to talk to me. David Bowie came down to my level - so gentlemanly.”
“My 'No Parlez' album in 1983 - which went quadruple platinum - changed my life. The funniest thing though is the pictures we shot for the cover were rubbish, so we had to use a set we'd done for Smash Hits magazine instead.”
“After performing in various bands, my big break came when I signed for the record label CBS. I had a couple of hits, then my third single, 'Wherever I Lay My Hat,' reached No 1 in 1983.”
“Look to the future; don't dwell on a past that you can't change.”
“You are what you decide you want to be. You can be some horrible, bitter person who's not a pleasure to be with. That's your choice.”
“If you do something right you get a real sense of achievement and an adrenalin rush.”
“I don't think you can be as successful as an artist like Robbie Williams unless you're thinkin' about yourself 24 hours a day.”
“I was trying to do L.A. style in the U.K. and it didn't really work.”