“When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.” — Henry Rollins Quote

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

Most Americans are very cool people.

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

For any adult person who has gone through a rough breakup, when you have a situation where you know the breakup needs to happen, that doesn't mean you're not sad about it.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

To be honest, I was the world's worst vegetarian. You see - I didn't really like vegetables very much. I'd spent most of my childhood terrified of them - horrid bland mushy things. It's only as an adult I realise that part of the problem is my mother's cooking - she hates using salt and has a tendency to overboil things. Thanks, Mum.