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

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

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.

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

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

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