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.

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.

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

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

The albums I did around that time probably wouldn't have been the same without Ecstacy. The first three Soft Cell albums... were all really albums that were just done around Ecstacy and the whole E feeling.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.