You've got one life: find your voice within it.
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.
When I was pregnant, I prayed that my daughter would have brown, green, or grey eyes.
My mother was so ignorant of what could have befallen me and was probably so exhausted - she was one of the first generation of single parents as well - that it was all a bit overwhelming. So the naivety of parents meant we did have a certain amount of freedom.
I think I function well in most parts of my life but possibly not in that emotional side of my life.
I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.
I didn't have many role models or interesting women to get stirred up by until Yoko Ono came along.
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.
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.
Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that.
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.
During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war - the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.
It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened.
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.
Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.
A lot of the men I've dated have been incapable of even basic kindness.
Girls were nothing in the '70s.
I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.
I'm not a nostalgic person.
We're all products of our own environment.
