It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.

When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.