Basically, a band's first record is them coming together and really learning everything, and then, after they're on the road and really become a unit, the next record slams.

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

If you live in the past, you've got no future.

I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.

I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.