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.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

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

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.