Pieces of me: Jason Donovan

My 21st birthday present from Kylie, a late 60s Fender Stratocaster. It doesn’t get used now, but I was very much into guitars at the time, although I don’t think I’ve ever really played it properly Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

My mother-in-law gives me a WH Smith diary each Christmas. I fill it with ­receipts, sketches, appointments and cards, and it becomes a scrapbook of my year. In my lost years I still kept diaries, but the problem with drugs is you become less functional with forward planning Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

I'm sure Joseph wasn’t the direction I ­intended for my career, but my manager said it was pivotal and he was right. It earned me ­respect, as it was so successful, but it came at the wrong time as I’d worked hard for four years on Pete ­Waterman’s record label, and suddenly I was doing eight shows a week. I was exhausted, I found it claustrophobic and I lost my sense of humour Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

I panic if I lose something and I used to get through so many keys that now I hang them around my neck. The responsibility of having a key and taking it to school was something I did at a very young age as my mother left when I was five and I was brought up by my dad, who remarried when I was 12 Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

The first record I had was a Beatles box set, and I remember my father driving from Melbourne to Sydney playing Abbey Road on a big cassette player. This is one of a collection of photographs I bought, printed from the original negatives Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

My daughter, Jemma, is eight. She has a big interest in the arts and always puts on plays and dresses up Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

My son, Zac, is seven. He's into computers — a bright little spark Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

I married in Bali in June this year, but we still haven’t done it here so it’s not legally binding. We bought lots of pieces while there, including three of these. Buddha is a wonderful symbol of karma — despite the fact that one of them fell on me and broke my thumb Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

Scootering has changed my life as it allows me to reach places on time — although it makes me mad that you can’t park a bike in central London. That was one reason I didn’t vote for Ken Living­stone: let’s hope Boris ­Johnson is more pro-active Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

I love my coffee but I’m not an addict — I drink one very strong macchiato in the morning, but never in the afternoons Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

I’m all for pedal power. It ticks all the boxes and is ecologically sound Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

Even after all the years in London, I still call flip-flops thongs. I love the beach — salt water is God’s bloody medicine — although I don’t get there enough Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian

I only started drinking wine at 30; it was all drugs before that. It’s always French wine, such as bordeaux, but I’m not hugely au fait with what’s good or bad: if it’s from Majestic and it’s £8 or £9, that’s pretty good to me Photograph: Frank Baron/Guardian