A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?