Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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.
I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!
These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.
Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.