Quotes from Martin Kemp

If you walk through life and you relate to everybody who looks at you, it would send you mad. So you close those people off, and you end up in a very small, tight bubble.

There was a moment when Thierry Henry returned to Arsenal for a game against Leeds, and the whole of the ground was waiting for him to come on. He came on and he scored. And he went right down the pitch, and jumped into Arsene Wenger's arms. At that moment I was bawling my eyes out. I could see how much it meant to him.

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.

Like any working-class boy growing up in north London, I wanted to be a footballer.

I'm a working-class guy.

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.

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

If you've seen 'Hustle' before, 'Hustle' is kind of like one degree over reality. It's always heightened, which makes it fun to watch in the way that they play it, in the way that stories are, even the way that it's shot - the camerawork is heightened and it's meant to do that.

I'm basically a shy person.

When I was young, I first went into the theatre which opened up across from my house. My mum and dad put me in there, not to become an actor or anything but to get rid of my shyness, which was so bad, to the point it was painful. My time there was all about encouragement and improvisation.

I was 18 when I signed my first record contract and in those days fame was a lot of fun.

There's nothing worse than swollen feet after a long flight so I always wear comfortable shoes, usually trainers.

I joined Spandau Ballet not because I wanted to be the best musician in the world, but because I wanted to be Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando.

I think improvisation is a skill, that if you learn it at a really young age then you can use it for the rest of your life, whether that's acting or singing.

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

There's not many jobs where you go home and are still smiling.

I can't dance. There's some things I have to admit I can't do, and dancing is one of them.

Every TV show you want to do, they want to look in your house. It's God's honest truth, they want to send a TV crew round to your house!

Every time you do something good you have to stand back and breathe the moment in.

What greater thing can you do than walk on the moon?

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

As a child I was painfully embarrassed by everything, always blushing and unable to make eye contact.

In the Eighties, London was unbeatable for nightlife and for clubbing it would have been Ibiza. But my clubbing days are behind me.

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.