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

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.