The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

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.

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

The albums I did around that time probably wouldn't have been the same without Ecstacy. The first three Soft Cell albums... were all really albums that were just done around Ecstacy and the whole E feeling.

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.