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

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

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.

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've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

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.

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