I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

I mean, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, I think the young kids sell lot of records. But for an older kind of artist, more of a sort of heritage, vintage type of artist, you have to think outside the box.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.