My book's being pulped and will no longer exist. You should buy 37 copies at bargain-basement prices while you can. 

“Nobody ever offered me enough dough to sell out. If they gave me a million I would sell out but they never do that. They’ll maybe offer me 10 grand and a packet of Woodbines. With working-class artists, they hope you’ll sell out for a working-class wage.”

"The women in my family were very forceful. We only watched men on the telly. I thought they only came behind glass. I had no idea you could actually unwrap one." 

You are seeing things that are utterly different from anything in your experience, animals that live upside down, hanging from the tops of trees. Bizarre."

"Culture is all the things we aren't that tell us what we are. Whether it's a painting, a building, or a song, it's those things that tell us who we are better than we could ever say in words."

"I didn't realise how much it was affecting my life. I thought I was just stressed in general but actually it was the fact that I had a flight coming up. Once you take that out of the equation, life gets much easier."

"There are reasons I'm not in a hotel room somewhere with a needle in my arm. I don't allow strangers exposure to the side that rips your skin off and sings the music."

"There might be a couple of frames where you go, Wow, what was that?' and it feels really good. Have I ever experienced that? Sometimes, very briefly."

You're just a journalist from the Sunday fucking Herald and I'm not interested in your opinions, OK? So just fucking listen or you will not talk to me, or have access to my people, as long as you fucking live."