When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.