Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

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

If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel uncomfortable. I think if you're starting to feel uncomfortable with something when you're writing it, that's the reason really to push on with it.

I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.

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

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.