Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

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.

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

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.

The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

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.