I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

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

I'm always aware of mortality.

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

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.