You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.