Martin Kemp

“Sometimes when somebody wants to take the lead it's nice to take a back seat.”

“Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for them.”

“I'm basically a shy person.”

“Music was far more tribal in the Eighties; you were into one band and that was it.”

“Our first record with Spandau Ballet went to number five - I guess we were offering something different and it appealed.”

“There was a greengrocer on Rotherfield Street off Essex Road in Islington, north London. My brother Gary worked there for a couple of years and when he moved on I took over.”

“Spandau wasn't just about the music; it was about the fashion that went with it too. We were part of the New Romantic movement that happened around the Blitz nightclub in London, and we thought the best way to sell the band to America was to take the whole package to New York.”

“A lot of things in life only become historic in retrospect, but we knew that Live Aid was a historic day while it was happening. Two billion people around the world were watching it on television at the same time. It was a massive moment.”

“When I was growing up, a Saturday job was a rite of passage, every kid had one.”

“I've worked with lots of actors who sit at home for years waiting to get a job, then as soon as they do, they want to go home.”

“My wife Shirlie was in Wham! when we met, so we were moving in the same circles.”

“I've never felt comfortable in the spotlight. I never felt pretty enough or wanted people to look at me.”

“I cry all the time.”

“I think it was my mum and dad who taught me how to love and how to think a relationship works, and I think it was by watching them.”

“Bowie's my hero.”

“I'm a typical 2016 TV viewer: I like short bursts of heavy watching.”

“When you have kids, things come at you that you don't expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.”

“When you're acting, playing the bad guy, you get a chance to open up this box inside and look at all the bad things that you've got in there.”

“Gary and I have been working together all our adult lives and there aren't many brothers who have that opportunity, or they have that opportunity but can't make it to the finishing line. I love the fact that I get to spend so much time with him and I'm not sure there's any other job, except being in another band together, where we'd get to do that.”

“My mum and dad were together 55 years, I don't think they spent a day apart.”