I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.