I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

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

I like situations that force me to rethink things.

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.

I 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.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

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