Ours is a career built on a friendship, not a friendship built on a career.
We saw the band as an acting job - it was an extension of 'Byker Grove.' We were even still called PJ and Duncan.
When we used to watch some BBC kids' shows it felt like some of the presenters were parental figures, we wanted to be their cheeky uncles really, their fun uncles, and speak to them on their level.
I think Ant and I were ambitious because of where we come from. Both of us are from working-class families on council estates in Newcastle.
No one looks forward to getting old do they?
Nobody ever sets out to make a flop, but it's going to happen. You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and say: 'Right, we go again.'
Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.
It's a big thing, our relationship with ITV.
You know you're getting older when the record executives start getting younger.
It's naive to think we're the only living beings in this universe.
I love a sneeze.
We honestly felt a bit more at home in the TV studio than we did in the recording studio.
I think working as part of a brotherhood shows you can achieve personal satisfaction in a team.
Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'
I go for a sensible dinner with the wife when I can.
When we were 17, I got my first car, a Mini Metro.
When we were first doing kids' shows with the BBC they asked us where we wanted to be in a few years' time and we said we want to be where Noel Edmonds is.
My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.
I can be quite argumentative and stubborn if I get a bee in my bonnet. I can be quite a pain.
We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.
