I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.