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

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.

What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

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.

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

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.