It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting.

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.

Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

I need to sleep, but fear to dream.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.