Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

Even just making albums - which was more within the structure that I've worked in for years - you have no idea how people will respond. You don't know if it'll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying.