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

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

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.

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.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.

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.