Musician

To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.

My family used to say, point-blank, 'We'd support you if we thought you could sing, or we thought you could write songs, but you can't.'

Anyone can feel amazing if you're with someone you love.

I've always enjoyed acting, and there's more than a degree of it involved in singing live on stage.

Inverted snobbery is just as dangerous as snobbery itself, you know - that pride in having nothing.

I wish I had better contact with my family.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

I feel a lot better when I've got a bit of cash on me.

I'm always looking over my shoulder.

Noel Gallagher is a poet, and Liam is a town crier.

It's never going to be hipster because you've got that smell that the sea gives out twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is art-led regeneration.

I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.

I like touring. It's like a school trip.

Spitalfields - I often find myself milling around there. I always go down Spitalfields whenever I can.

Amy Winehouse asked me a while ago if I had written any new songs. I played her something, and when I had finished, she looked at me and said, 'Is that it? Is that all you've got?'

I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.

I quite like 50 Cent.

In a way, I'm always working with Mick Jones. I feel like he's watching over me all the time. We talk about everything: history quite a lot. Balloons and wars and old football players. The Clash.

I used to write songs to get love, but now that I have it, I don't feel the need to anymore.