For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
I like situations that force me to rethink things.
If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.
I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.
There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'.
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.
I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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.
I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.
I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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.
Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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.
My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
