“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was wr...” — David Bowie Quote

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I'll tell you who I absolutely adore: Ian McEwan.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.