My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay

My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. [...] And also I'm monogamous.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.