Because of Carrie, I have my wonderful son Zeke Young, who I love. So I would never change what happened.

I did kind of The Lion King when she arrived. I was the first person to have her in the world and I went: Behold! Theodora Rose Williams!

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

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.