Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.