Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

Love is an angel disguised as lust.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.

Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.