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

My modus operandi is that I’ll be content with anything, as long as I know that it’s the best that’s possible.

When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other...

Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal...

Oh, and 13.1 million American people had their homes foreclosed. Because their debt, it turns out, was real; it was only the debt within the financial sector that was imaginary. It was only the people...

I couldn’t possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

I didn’t cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

What? You had sufficient housing, it cost less money to house them, and you just ignored the problem?”They’d be as astonished by our indifference as we are by the disconnected cruelty of Anwar.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn’t do.

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] – ‘I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger.’ What a sexy little paradox.

I don’t like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don’t come at the end of it.

Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups, was melancholy. “I thought I’d be overjoyed, but really it’s just … another one bites the dust …”...

Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was...

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more – ‘damn you tiny assassin, clad...

Companies’ motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

This is no time for drinking a mug of water – which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don’t drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on...

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

brought it on themselves?

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterwards.

The need to find out what will happen if I don’t relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.

I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and if you align yourself with this infinite creative force then you can be...

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can’t be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that’s got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants… I wish it would do more interesting things!

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted,...

Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth.Half the...

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Have you been out in society recently? ‘Cause it’s SHIT.

Rituals are missing nowadays

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

People don’t realize that the future is just now, but later.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

I am naïve and I have fucked up but I tell you something else. I believe in change. I don’t mind getting my hands dirty because my hands are dirty already. I don’t mind giving...

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t...

People do this a lot. They don’t seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they’re going to do things in anticipation of some kind...

Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly...

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it’s just the perceptions that...

When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want...

What I’ve learnt – to my cost – on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you’re giving them what they want....

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn’t fuck, which is usually...

I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I...