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

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

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.

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

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.