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 t….

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 u….

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

Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the st….

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that..

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 le….

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past..

I like situations that force me to rethink things..

There's no such thing as 'I can't do it'..

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else..

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually ha….

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs..

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV..

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

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure..

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places..

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

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 d….

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….

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 ele….

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..