I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

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

Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.