My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

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