If You're A Drug Addict,

It Would Have Been Convenient To Be Gay. Just Because Of The Grooming, The Narcissism, Stuff Like That. But I Have This Kind Of Roaring Heterosexuality. Traditional, Uncomplicated Heterosexuality, An Almost Cliched Robin Askwith Thing.

Be Led By Your Talent, Not By Your Self-loathing; Those Other Things You Just Have To Manage.

Fear Travels Fast. Love Travels A Little More Slowly. Rationale Takes A Little More Consideration.

I Don't Know If This Is The Kind Of Retrospective Analysis That People Are Fond Of Applying To Their Work Or Actions, But It Feels Like I Knew I Was Going To Be Famous And I Knew That An Element Of That Would Be Traumatic, So That If I Could Make Myself Something Big And Otherworldly, It Would Be A Kind Of Defence.

... And Drinking Neat Liquor From The Bottle, With All My Long Hair And My Shirt Undone And My Beads, Not So Much The Lizard King, More A Gecko Duchess, I Fitted In Nicely With Their Idea Of What A Creative Person Should Be.