If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.