I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I like situations that force me to rethink things.

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'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

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