As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

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

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'm always aware of mortality.

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.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.