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

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

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.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.