Biography

Is Welsh.

Speaks Welsh as his first language.

Has two older brothers, Kevin and Lee.

Lead singer in the Stereophonics, but plays the guitar as well.

His fellow Stereophonics members are Javier Weyler (drums) and Richard Jones (bass guitar and harmonica). Stuart Cable was sacked last year (2005) due to a lack of commitment in the band.

It doesn't take much for a band to sing a few songs and help bringing awareness that'll help suffering in the world. Long live rock'n'roll! - when performing at Live 8 -

Fame is a game you can choose not to play. There's many ways in and out of a building. If you wanna go to the Met Bar and get pissed, well, you don't have to stagger out the front door where all the cameras are waiting. Some people focus on that game, and other people just focus on what they do. To me, personally, I'd rather have the pressure of making a good record than the pressure of living up to a persona that doesn't exist.

Having an interview is an unnatural process. For me to actually explain my whole life to you in a single conversation: how am I supposed to do that? All I can do is give you a little snapshot of how I feel in this half hour on this day. And you go away and write whatever you want and I've gotta live with that. It's an impossible situation. I can't win.

It's always been about the songs, for me. You can have a two-note melody that can make you cry: it's as simple as that but it's also as complicated as that.

Most records made today sound like one song from beginning to end. There's a lot of different moods and changes throughout this record [You Gotta Go There To Come Back]. Every few bars, when your brain's saying, 'Have you heard that now', I wanted to put something new in there.