On The Good Ship Lollipop, by Shirley Temple.

I have asked a fireworks company to put my ashes in a collection of rockets, so I think the right tune is Handel’s firework music.

Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. I’m a big sports fan and Italia 90 was such a massive part of my life when I’d just turned 17. That tune just builds and builds. I can imagine a massive coffin disappearing down while he’s singing. What better way to go?

Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads. When I first heard it at 15, it was different to all the punk I was listening to. When I was starting out in my career, it was all about: ‘How is this possible? How am I doing this?’ Now it’s: ‘Is this my life? How did I get here?’ The lyrics are all about returning full to nature. That’s how I imagine death to be. So that’s what I want at my funeral. And they’ll play Combine Harvester by the Wurzels as people are leaving the church.

Fifteen years ago, a bacteria went to my heart. For three days they didn’t know if I was going to live or not.

There are types: there is the world-being-comfortable type of love and there’s the lust-and-passion type of love – I think I like that one better.

As a nice person, I hope.

People worship music artists or actors but I have a lot of admiration for doctors, people who save lives.

My girlfriend [Cuban model Jessica Ledon].

I guess I would wake up, have breakfast with my children. Then I’d go to the studio and make the best record of my life, and then have a lot of sex! That sounds pretty balanced, I think!