As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.