I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

Never bored, so I'll never get old

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.