You can't lie to your soul.

Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.

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

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

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

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.