I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

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

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

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 think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

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.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.