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

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

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

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

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.