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 was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.

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

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

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.