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

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

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

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

On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city - and London more than anywhere - has got to be a vibrant mix of all different things. We can't allow it to become a monoculture.

I'm always aware of mortality.

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.