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.

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

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.

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

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

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

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.