It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

Work while others are wishing.

I was always keen to do a solo album. I just wanted it to be the right time and the right place so that I could actually work properly on the songs that I wanted to do before I got too old.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.