Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.