People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately.

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.