My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

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.

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

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

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.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.