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I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England - this is, like, 1984 - there were these two girls. They were literally vicar's daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place.