“Actually I see myself as a running commentary on time, because I learnt a few years ago that everything becomes nostalgic, and everything becomes camp.
“And you always relate to certain things like they make you laugh or they make you sad ”“ images, y’know.
“I mean no-one has ever sung ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ the way I have. No-one ever had that particular vision. But that’s the way I remember the song.
“When I came back a number of years later and decided to do it, that was exactly the way I felt it had to be done ”“ a little melancholy on the side and sort of sexy, y’know. I also remembered ‘Leader of the Pack’ like that.” (Musical Express, 1973)