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

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

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.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

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