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I never liked making albums.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

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

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!