It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have read these tears as being as fake as the smiles of his predecessors when they knifed her in the back.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.