"It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop."

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.