The actor, whose eight-year-old daughter Lily-Rose was hospitalised after reportedly contracting the E.coli bacterial infection earlier this year, insists nothing matters more to him than his family.

Johnny, who also has a five-year-old son Jack John with long-term partner Vanessa Paradis, said: “I wasn’t sure if I would be able to come back. My kids and my girl - nothing else matters in life. My kids are very grounded, not monster-like at all. We keep discipline under control.

“When I was younger I used to play a lot of practical jokes and I p****d my mother off. But the greatest advice I ever got was from her, ‘Don’t take s**t from anybody. Ever.’ And that has stuck with me and I hope my kids never, ever have to take s**t off anybody either.”

Johnny, who postponed filming new musical ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ when Lily-Rose was ill, also revealed he was nervous about his singing scenes in the movie.

He is quoted as saying: “I think I was probably more frightened than anyone. I’ve never even tried karaoke. It scares the hell out of me. I’ve never been that drunk - and I’ve been drunk. I didn’t know if I could sing. I did these demos in my friend’s garage studio because I didn’t know if I could hit a note and to be honest I really didn’t. I tried to use Iggy Pop as my inspiration.  “Someone is probably weeping after watching my performance.”

Here is Johnny Depp at a London Sweeney Todd Press Conference.  I think Johnny is much better looking onscreen than in real life.  I dunno, his style is very unsexy (to me).

Johnny Depp has painted a portrait of his girlfriend, which has become the cover of her new album.

Depp has painted a portrait of the mother of his two children, French pop star Vanessa Paradis, for her upcoming album, Divine Idylle.

His rose- and gold-toned album cover isn’t the only family member’s contribution to Vanessa’s first pop record in seven years! Their 5-year-old son, Jack, sings a few lines in “Jackadi,” the last song on the album.

While Depp helped his wife out in her professional life by painting for her album, she has been said to have given him singing lessons so he can do his own vocals in the upcoming Sweeney Todd musical.

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Johnny Depp at the Tim Burton Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony at the 64th Venice Film Festival, September 5

As usual, Johnny is playing another odd-ball character. It looks sort of creepy!

Johnny Depp will produce and star in Warner Independent’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s autobiographical 1959 book The Rum Diaries. Depp will play Paul Kemp, a freelance newspaper journalist in 1950s Puerto Rico who is surrounded by a group of self-destructive lost souls.

Thompson wrote the novel when he was 22, before he developed his trademark ”gonzo” style of writing. Though written in 1959, Rum Diaries was not published until 1998.

Depp previously starred in a movie adaptation of Thompson’s 1972 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The actor just finished shooting Sweeny Todd and is expected to start work on Rum Diaries after he wraps Shantaram, Mira Nair’s adaptation of the novel about an Australian drug addict who returns to a life of crime after escaping to India.

Last week, it was announced that Depp’s production company was working with King’s GK Films on a movie adaptation of the 1960s supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows.

Fear & Loathing is one of the strangest movies I’ve ever seen.  Yikes.

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The Pirates of the Caribbean star - in all his topless glory - set sail for a romantic getaway in the Mediterranean with his long-term partner, French actress Vanessa Paradis.

The trip comes as rumours are circulating that Depp is planning to wed Paradis after almost than ten years together.

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