Everybody knows Gary Numan is weird. (There was the whole fly-yourself-around-the-world thing, the living-with-your-parents thing, the fact that the Indian government once thought he was a spy.) Then, a few years ago, it came out that Numan may have Asperger Syndrome – a mild form of autism that keeps those who suffer from it from reading normal social cues – and his weirdness began to fade. “If people came over for dinner and I saw a magazine I hadn’t read, I’d pick it up, sit in the corner and read it – which I now know is wrong,” Numan reportedly said, explaining how he’s learned to behave.

For those who worry Numan’s healthier head may have turned him into a polite square, fear not. He keeps a stuffed Alaskan timber wolf under the stairs. “I saw some kids poking it in a shop when I was on an American tour,” the singer explains. “It was so undignified for such a wonderful animal. I bought it and wanted to build a tundra setting in my house with a big mural of the Arctic behind it to give it a dignified end. It’s under the stairs now. We used to keep it at the top of the stairs where you could only see its head. Visitors would go to use the toilet, then you’d hear them scream. It cracked me up every time.”