If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

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

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.