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

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

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

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

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.