I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.