I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

Actually, my ambition at eight or nine years old was to be one of Little Richard's sax players, and that's when I got my first saxophone, a Selmer. It was a strange Bakelite material - that creamy plastic with all the gold keys on it. I had to get a job as a butcher's delivery boy to start paying for it.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.