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None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

Touring is easy. My wife will be with me a lot of the time. We get spoilt rotten, and all I have to do is go on stage in wonderful places and play music.

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Being on the road isn't hell - it's pure pleasure now.

I spend as much time as I can in my garden, and if I'm not writing songs or gardening, I'm painting.

Back in 1997, I got to race a Ferrari at the famous Monza circuit in Italy - a dream come true.

My father's family were Italian ice cream men, and the knowledge was passed on, so I ran an ice cream van while I was dating my wife.

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

The Italian side of my family were gypsies, and we are little hard so-and-sos.

Five times a week, I do two hours running and gym work. That's to help with things like blood circulation. Also, it is good to be in shape in case I need to go into hospital again.

I will be happy if I am 60 because I was not supposed to be 60.

Rather than missing home when I'm on tour, I miss tour when I'm at home.

'Fool If You Think It's Over' is still the only song I've ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit. It was in...

I feel I've had three careers in one, really. There was the 'Benny Santini' stuff; that came with a general sense of, 'Who the hell is he?' And then there was 'The Road To Hell' stuff, and now there's the...

I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it's very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

I never had a desire to be famous.

I live halfway between London and the airport, which means I can operate my European career and get home every night. It costs a lot of money, but it's worth it.

I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise.

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

'Course, 'Santini' bombed in England, y'know. It came out at the height of the New Wave, which couldn't have been a worse time for a solo singer trying to sell rock melodies.

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