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

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

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

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

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