The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

When you have a kid, money matters.

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.

And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

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