As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.