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I adore quotes.
I like to rattle cages.
I'm not a nostalgic person.
The truth is the only thing that will move society forwards.
Mum had pumped me so full of anger, I couldn't throw it off.
I'm the angriest and most empathetic person you'll ever meet.
People say you mellow as you get older, and I really haven't.
I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.
A lot of the men I've dated have been incapable of even basic kindness.
It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.
There's a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it.
I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.
It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces.
One of my faults is a big mouth. I tend to say the wrong thing without meaning to.
I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot.
It's me who fixes the roof, unblocks the drain, and changes the plug. I'm Spartacus.
I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.
When I was pregnant, I prayed that my daughter would have brown, green, or grey eyes.
Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money.
If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.
I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it.
The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you're challenging yourself.
I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.
Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.
I didn't have many role models or interesting women to get stirred up by until Yoko Ono came along.
I think I function well in most parts of my life but possibly not in that emotional side of my life.
I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.
Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words.
I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate.
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.
Directing taught me how to run a team and turn up on time - things you don't really learn when you're in a band.
It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.
I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads.
I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.
Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that.
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.
I always love a song about London or about places. I think Britain could do with more of them; America is so good at that.
I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.
Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.
Punk was such an exciting time because there were no rules. You could go and knock on Sun Ra's door - and he was in the phonebook, under Ra!
I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such a school.' They just bore me.
I could be completely mad and sound like David Icke, but I just find people with blue eyes colder, less passionate, and more calculated people.
Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look for happiness.'
I always felt very free about experimenting with clothes. I was into clothes in a big way from a young age. Not expensive but fun and experimental.
We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my personality, because I'm self-taught.
Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing, they let go like no one else.
I like to smell a book before I start it. I fold over the pages, write comments in the margins, leave it on the bed next to my pillow when I fall asleep.