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.

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.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.

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