I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.