It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.
Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs,. . . Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1. 30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer.
I think the Thompsons had got a sort of fatal illness about three albums ago and it just took this long to find out that enough was enough. And we became increasingly frustrated by. . . I don't know, we want to get into the areas that being a pop group never allowed you to get into.
John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.
I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.
I want to be real. I don't want to pose as anything. I don't want to pose as a tough guy. I don't want to pose as a nice guy.
The opening for solid waste is very small [in the space ship]. It's not toilet-bowl size. And aim is critical. To be honest with you, you don't know where your asshole is pointing within a small circumference.