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" Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie. "
Reading
Present
Me
" For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun. "
Past
My Life
Life
" I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate. "
Am
Male
I Am
" I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row. "
Person
Aesthetic
Am
" 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 came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene. "
People
Politics
Real
" I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense. "
Nonsense
Saying
Reason
" I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before. "
Tell
Want
Travel
" I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. "
Myself
Tie
Feel
" I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood. "
Love
Like
Places
" I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all. "
Believe
Atheist
" In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly. "
Family
You
Think
" I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with. "
Person
Marriage
Think
" I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.' "
Know
Think
Doing
" I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people. "
Out
Think
Sometimes
" It's always an honour doing anything for your country. "
Your
Always
Anything
" It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it. "
Art
Greatest
Sit
" I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors. "
Always
Musicians
Pop
" I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful. "
Hell
Been
Band
" Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after. "
Good
Wife
True
" 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. "
Life
My Life
Band
" My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player. "
Football
I Am
Brother
" My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home. "
Like
Library
Home
" My instinct is to be very controlling. "
Instinct
Controlling
Very
" Pop music should be about young people. "
People
Music
Pop
" Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that. "
People
Angry
Art
" Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas. "
Ideas
You
Me
" The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted. "
People
Like
Going
" We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. "
Home
Me
Science
" We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me. "
Wear
Daily
Me
" Your life is the same wherever you go. "
Life
Go
Same
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