146 Quotes by Paul Young

Can’t go on singing the same theme, ’cause baby, can’t you see, we’ve got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you.

We once employed a girl in Texas to produce a fanzine, and after meeting her there she seemed fine. Then the letters started and they got strange and she began to claim we were an item. She also sent me a rhinestone cow bone sprayed silver and mounted on a plinth. Don't ask me why.

When I was given a tricycle, aged eight, I'd disappear for hours and do my own thing.

My dad was a trained carpenter and worked for Vauxhall Motors. We had money, though not a great deal.

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.

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 used to have a spider phobia, but I'm pretty fearless now.

I don't remember how much money we got when I was in Streetband. It was whatever cash was left at the end of the night once we'd paid off the roadies etc for a gig.

I think it's really good to get early work experience. I'm not sure if it will happen with my children, but for many young people it's character-building and sets them up for what comes later.