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

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

Pop music should be about young people.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

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.

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.