Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

I started playing around with local rock band swith the alto. And then, in a nutshell, somebody fell ill one night, the lead singer of one of the bands, and they knew I could sing, so they asked me if I would stand in. And I quite enjoyed it, actually, I must say, at 14. It was a real trip to have girls wave at you and smile and everything just because you opened your mouth and sang.