“I'm not really a mainstream novelist!” — Irvine Welsh Quote

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

I haven't got the kind of films from mainstream cinema which I would have wanted. But then mainstream cinema has a different bunch of people who are happy working with each other, which is fine.

I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know.

So much of the mainstream media has taught us what beauty is, but everyone is beautiful.