Right now. It's a beautiful thing to find yourself "the wrong side of 40" and more in love with life than ever. I never tell people this publicly as they wrongly assume the only valid creative state is that of the cliche of the tubercular, tortured artist coughing up blood in his garret.

Our wedding weekend in Ireland.

When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.

My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.

I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.

My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.

Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.

I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.

Shakespeare said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – I think that’s true.

My brother Pete passing on in 2005.