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'm always aware of mortality.

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.

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

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

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

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.