My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast including living life too fast that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time I make sure I leave early enough.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

For life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Dad was a bus driver and when he finished work he would repair cars.

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

When I was a kid my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

Before breaking into music I had various jobs: forklift driver driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.