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 you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

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.

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

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.

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

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.