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

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.

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.

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

My children didn't choose to be born, I chose to have children. They owe me nothing, I owe them everything.

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.