I grew up on the south coast in Shoreham-by-Sea in a three-bedroom semi-detached home with a large garden shared by two properties.
There were people who went for serious mind enhancement, like Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon, although I didn't really need to do that. I was blessed with an incredibly fertile imagination.
I'm sure I could have been a rich man, but I never was.
Dancing as a thing to do is marvellous, but you've got to be bloody good at it. I was never good enough.
We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.
My dad died with a full head of hair, so I have that legacy.
In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.
What keeps a good face is no stress, and I refuse to worry.
I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.
I come from a time when music used to make a difference.
I'm a very changeable character. I don't think I've got one style of music that is overriding to me.
I had to learn very quickly how to perform, how to act, how to look, to always say what I wanted to say in my songs.
I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.
I have had a partial kneecap replacement, an irritable bowel and three stents in my heart.
The Seventies was a golden era. Back then we had some incredible talent with bands like the Undertones, the Rolling Stones and artists like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.
I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.
I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.
I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.
I'm impressed with Ed Sheeran. I think he has a terrific point of view and a great mentality but I sense there is someone in the background saying to him, 'We need more love songs, Ed.'
There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.
