Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.