I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.