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

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.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

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

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 mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.