A Tattoo Doesn't Make You Look Like

Largely This Is A Class Thing - Writers Tend To Be Cosseted Little Middle-class Kiddies Who Think That The World Owes Them A Royalty Cheque. But Just Doing It - Being In Your Room For Years On End, Locked In Your Head, Alone With Invented Ghosts - It Weakens And Softens The Body. And I Know I Can't Just Live In My Head.

It Felt Natural. That Is What I Remember Most About Becoming A Father Halfway Through My 20s. As If Mother Nature Was Giving Me The Big Thumbs Up.

It Can't Always Be A Honeymoon

My Teenage Years Were Spent Trying To Look Like Rod Stewart - I Ended Up Looking Like Dave Hill From Slade.

I Don't Think Much Of Anything I Wrote Before The Age Of 30.