I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language

I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter. Because I'd have to be answering things that I didn't really know anything about, and I'd rather just wait for the dust to settle and then say something.

I'm online, therefore I am.

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences…if you aren’t learning from them.

The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately

The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

Words will be just words till you bring them to life

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.