You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.