What helped a lot was becoming a dad at 47. I can't begin to imagine how I would have coped when I was just starting out with Simply Red. Gabriella and I would have been another one of those divorce statistics.
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I wish I had known my mother, but I've only met her twice. I can only figure about people who were there for me and she wasn't.
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I get great creative pleasure from my work.
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For a frontman of a band, good hair is a requisite.
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I actually felt sorry for Liverpool bands like Bunnymen and Wah!, having this immense pressure of following the Beatles. I suppose I responded to that challenge by being nothing like them. I carved my own thing.
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I'm going to write music that's appropriate to my age. And if younger people want to come along with me, they're welcome to.
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In January 1999, I proposed an initiative to the Music Industry Forum which I called Communities In Tune. Its aim was to bring community centres to the Internet generation.
