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

I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myse….

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 p….

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 think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger..

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 ea….

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of ….

Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ….

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..

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

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime….

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

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 was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illn….

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people..

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..

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….

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

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

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….

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….