Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.