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 still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

Whenever I'm home, I haven't got any makeup on. But even in the studio, before I do vocals, I put makeup on.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.