We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

I was introduced to the church through my parents but I had to struggle and find it on my own. In the end I learned much of my faith and found much of my strength through watching my father's and mother's journeys.

To give you an idea about how old I'm getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.