I hate to say it, but one of the worst things you could be called when I was younger was unfeminine.
The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you're challenging yourself.
I've had to fight for everything.
I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads.
There's a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it.
I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it.
You've got one life find your voice within it.
I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.
If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.
I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.
Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that.
I always love a song about London or about places. I think Britain could do with more of them; America is so good at that.
We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.
I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.
Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.
