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“Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.”

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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

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Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

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I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

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The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was…

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I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher…

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