The 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.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

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.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

I'm always aware of mortality.

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.

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