As UK rockers Muse approach their 20th year as a band,  frontman Matt Bellamy has admitted that their days of rock’n’roll excess are long since over, thanks to the band members’ grounding in family.

The singer has a 22-month-old son Bingham with actress Kate Hudson and credits fatherhood with setting him straight.

“You have to put others before you — especially when you have kids,” Bellamy told The Sun. “You focus on the needs of a child being in front of your own, and that’s an amazing experience.

“When you’re flitting about all over the world you can get caught up a bit in your own needs and wants. But as soon as there is someone else there, it puts it in perspective. It’s a really healthy thing. Family life is all about love.”

Bellamy also praised Hudson, saying that her compromises go a long way to making their unique family dynamic work.

“I think I am very lucky because my partner, my girlfriend. She loves travelling,” explains Bellamy. “She was raised in a family where there was a lot of travelling and upheaval going on all the time.

“She is really open to us being on the road and because of that we haven’t really been apart for anything more than a week since our baby was born.

“A lot of the time, if she is working, I will go to where she is — and it works both ways. She comes to see us all the time.

“You balance a little bit, especially with two working people.”

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