I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

No religion is higher than humanity

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.