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

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

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 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.

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.