My life is routine-obsessed. I'm OCD, and if I'm not at home, I always get up early and exercise. I don't crash and burn at night, not these days, so early-ish to bed. At home, I have three small boys who bring me down to earth with school runs and endless meals.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

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

It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.