When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

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

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.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

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.

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.