You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Living, it's awful for me.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.