When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.

Everyone has their own mantra.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.