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.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

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.

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

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

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

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