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I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.

There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.