Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

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.

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 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.

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 thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.