We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.

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

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

I made a creativity out of that messiness.