After a significant traumatic experience when I was looking for reasons to stay alive.

Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.

When I was three and had meningitis.

I got run over when I was three. I ran across a road in Manchester and was hit by a car. I only had concussion, but I could have died.

I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.

Fame. The upside is not worth the downside – you can’t turn fame on and off, and have privacy.

I think I’d just like to be chilling out really, so it’s like real summer family holidays where the most important things to decide are what are you going to have for breakfast, what are you going to have for lunch, what beach are you going to, and what are you going to have for dinner.

I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..

When I was about 14 and got my first drum kit, I wanted to be a drummer in a band like the Police.

My wife, because she manages me and sometimes there isn’t time for niceties and we have to talk in a language that isn’t very marriage-like.