I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!