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

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

I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

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

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.