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

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

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.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

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

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.

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.