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

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.