But when you're an actor, you're a very small part in a machine. They're not your words. It's almost like being a session musician.
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.
I'm also negotiating the rights to a play that I want to turn into a film and hopefully direct, but more on that another time.
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
It has been a terrible affair for ourselves and our families and one that I'm sure was obviously going to destroy any hope of us making music again.
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.
Listen, if it sounds like I'm going to go into a big rant about how great it was then and how bad it is now, stop me.
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.
Pop music should be about young people.
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
We were taking the baton from the Seventies, from glam rock and punk. And our thing, whatever it was, was different. It wasn't retro. It wasn't looking back.
Your life is the same wherever you go.
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