When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won’t remember it, and you’ll learn nothing from it, and you’ll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.