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

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

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.

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.

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

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.