Paul Young

I don't travel that much with my band Los Pacaminos as it's quite a big crowd, but we got invited down to…

— Paul Young

When I'm in the truck on my own I play big, open space music, such as Ry Cooder or Latin stuff.

— Paul Young

You can have talent, but unless you're in the right place at the right time, then it isn't going to happen for…

— Paul Young

I don't know how you can hope to run a family unless you accept what's in front of you.

— Paul Young

I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

— Paul Young

Chrysalis Records saw my group, Q-Tips, as a party band. They weren't doing much for our careers.

— Paul Young

I fancy a safari in South Africa. Watching animals in the wild must be amazing.

— Paul Young

Money came my way but wasn't really in the plan, so I didn't know how to deal with it.

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Even as a child I knew I wanted to be a singer, and in 1976, at the age of 20, I quit…

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When I was in L.A. in the 80s I got talking to Bruce Springsteen at a dinner party about the Harley-Davidson I'd…

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There was that 'anything is achievable' attitude in the Eighties. Everything was very positive and gung-ho. Well, 'hedonistic' is the word they…

— Paul Young

I'd driven through all these amazing places in America on tour buses, so I decided to take my family on a U.S.A.…

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I've always liked Iggy. He did an album, 'New Values,' in the punk days that I played to death. When you see…

— Paul Young

Recording everything with analogue equipment, as we did with 'No Parlez,' left space for the sorts of happy accidents that can make…

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I want to be alive for as long as possible and as I have got older, my body seems to tell me…

— Paul Young

I started off with a paper round when we were just about old enough to drive. I couldn't drive myself, so someone…

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I suppose I was lucky to be born in a time where I was in my early '20s in the '80s. It…

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I performed at Live Aid in front of a worldwide TV audience of 1.9 billion but I wasn't nervous - the atmosphere…

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I love playing live and I love to travel. I don't get bored by either one.

— Paul Young

If you do something right you get a real sense of achievement and an adrenalin rush.

— Paul Young

It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you…

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I'd been really shy as a kid, I had a terrible stutter, and I thought music would be a good outlet. And…

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It makes no sense to me at all to give away music for free. The very fact that we have to do…

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I wanted to do music at school but they discouraged it. If you did music you couldn't do technical drawing, which meant…

— Paul Young

When 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' went to number one in 1983, I was still driving a green Viva HC that my…

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Someone at an airport in Germany asked me to sing Wherever I Lay My Hat. It's strange, they wouldn't ask people in…

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I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and…

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I did part-time jobs until my apprenticeship as a milling machinist at Vauxhall when I was 16. I got £15 a week…

— Paul Young

If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my…

— Paul Young

My parents were still living with my grandparents, on my dad's side, when I was born, but when I was three, we…

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Rick James was a force to be reckoned with. He was an underground success here but huge in the U.S. - people…

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There are people who sit at home and decide to anonymously troll people on the Internet - what is wrong with these…

— Paul Young

I became a qualified machinist at Vauxhall. For some reason it's been erroneously reported that I used to screw on hubcaps, but…

— Paul Young

Dad's like the Six Million Dollar Man - as soon as he feels a twinge, he wants it fixed. He's even had…

— Paul Young

People forget that scenes and fashion trends changed very rapidly during the '80s. We went from glam rock to punk, to new…

— Paul Young

The Prius does about 55mpg and it always amuses me. I love it when you pull up at someone's house and all…

— Paul Young

When I'm not doing solo shows, I'm performing with my cowboy band Los Pacaminos - we play the kind of music you'd…

— Paul Young

I'm moved by song lyrics, particularly Tom Waits' 'Take It With Me.' It's about a man on his deathbed, wanting to take…

— Paul Young