We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

Let weakness learn meekness.

So much of the pain we feel is based on resistance to what we can't change. Allowing yourself to let go and feel how you feel in the moment is a blissful thing.

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.

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.

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.