Martin Kemp

I'm a working-class guy.

— Martin Kemp

I'm basically a shy person.

— Martin Kemp

I wanted to play for Arsenal.

— Martin Kemp

Bowie's my hero.

— Martin Kemp

There's not many jobs where you go home and are still smiling.

— Martin Kemp

I do believe there's a bit of bad in everyone.

— Martin Kemp

What greater thing can you do than walk on the moon?

— Martin Kemp

Charisma always was the important thing to me.

— Martin Kemp

I think we all subconsciously take inspiration from TV.

— Martin Kemp

Live Aid's one of my favourite memories of all-time.

— Martin Kemp

I think love gets better the older you get.

— Martin Kemp

It's fun being on a film set full stop.

— Martin Kemp

For me it's the funniest show on TV. 'Benidorm' is such old-school, 'Carry On,' panto humour. It's so warm.

— Martin Kemp

My mum and dad were together 55 years, I don't think they spent a day apart.

— Martin Kemp

Sometimes when somebody wants to take the lead it's nice to take a back seat.

— Martin Kemp

My wife Shirlie was in Wham! when we met, so we were moving in the same circles.

— Martin Kemp

I think one of the blessings of being involved in music is that you end up liking a bit of everything.

— Martin Kemp

Apart from my family, the closest people to me in the world are the guys in the band.

— Martin Kemp

Given how shy I was as a kid, the young me would be astonished to discover that I've made a career out…

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Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.

— Martin Kemp

I was brought up in a council flat in Islington with only an outside lavatory. And there were plenty of kids I…

— Martin Kemp

We grew up in Islington, north London, in a Georgian terraced house that nowadays would be split into flats. Our grandparents lived…

— Martin Kemp

If you walk through life and you relate to everybody who looks at you, it would send you mad. So you close…

— Martin Kemp

As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night…

— Martin Kemp

I remember watching Cilla Black with my mum and dad - I must have been about six years old - and getting…

— Martin Kemp

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're…

— Martin Kemp

In the Eighties, London was unbeatable for nightlife and for clubbing it would have been Ibiza. But my clubbing days are behind…

— Martin Kemp

I joined Spandau Ballet not because I wanted to be the best musician in the world, but because I wanted to be…

— Martin Kemp

I went to a party in Ibiza in 1984 in this house built into the side of a cliff with glass walls.…

— Martin Kemp

The last six months of 'EastEnders' were a struggle and when I watched Steve Owen's character on screen during that time, I…

— Martin Kemp

Gary and I have been working together all our adult lives and there aren't many brothers who have that opportunity, or they…

— Martin Kemp

Some of the gangster films I made - not so much the 'Krays,' because I'm really proud of that - but some…

— Martin Kemp

When I was young, I first went into the theatre which opened up across from my house. My mum and dad put…

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When Spandau were at the peak, there was a lot of pressure on us as brothers that kind of saved the band…

— Martin Kemp

There was a moment when Thierry Henry returned to Arsenal for a game against Leeds, and the whole of the ground was…

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We used to have a nanny who was obsessed with Take That. She was in love with Mark Owen and her room…

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It's fun for me playing bad guy or good guy.

— Martin Kemp

When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.

— Martin Kemp

I find the older I get - carrying this thing called fame - the more I close myself off. That's what you…

— Martin Kemp

I'm a typical 2016 TV viewer: I like short bursts of heavy watching.

— Martin Kemp