Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
Marc AlmondMy next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
Marc AlmondI love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.
Marc AlmondThe albums I did around that time probably wouldn't have been the same without Ecstacy. The first three Soft Cell albums... were all really albums that were just done around Ecstacy and the whole E feeling.
Marc AlmondThe 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.
Marc AlmondI 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.
Marc Almond