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 the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

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

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

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.

I like situations that force me to rethink things.