When I stopped Simply Red the reason was to bring up my daughter Romy. I wanted to be a dad that was around.

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

If I am asked what I think about family life after 25 years of marriage, I can answer with equal simplicity and conviction, I am for it.

More permanent and genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Since the day of creation, the fondest hopes of men and women have been to pass on to their children something better than they themselves enjoyed. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every human breast.