I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

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.

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.