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.

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

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

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.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.