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.

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

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'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.

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

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.

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