I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

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'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.