People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.