For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

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

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.

There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.

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.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.