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

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

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

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'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

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.

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