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.

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.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

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.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.