I wanted to do music at school but they discouraged it. If you did music you couldn't do technical drawing, which meant you couldn't work in engineering and as Vauxhall was the local employer that's what we were all being… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I remember being 12 or 13 and listening to 'Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp' by OC Smith. It reminds me of holidays in Cornwall,… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Even as a child I knew I wanted to be a singer, and in 1976, at the age of 20, I quit my job… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
We once employed a girl in Texas to produce a fanzine, and after meeting her there she seemed fine. Then the letters started and… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Money came my way but wasn't really in the plan, so I didn't know how to deal with it. — Paul Young Copy Share Image
We were far from being the kind of band that threw TVs out of hotel windows. In fact, we carried our own toolbox with… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
My mum said I used to sing on the bus. I was about five and would simply sit, staring out of the window, singing… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
People forget that scenes and fashion trends changed very rapidly during the '80s. We went from glam rock to punk, to new romantic, to… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I flew to Malaga once and instead of going left to Marbella, turned right and went to Nerja. I wanted to get as far… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I did 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Celebrity MasterChef.' I was quite good at those, and did a cookbook. — Paul Young Copy Share Image
If you do something right you get a real sense of achievement and an adrenalin rush. — Paul Young Copy Share Image
