Life Is Not A Theme Park, And

Im Happy To Be A Part Of The Conversation, If More Young People Are Talking About Fracking Instead Of Twerking Were Heading In The Right Direction. The People That Govern Us Dont Want An Active Population Who Are Politically Engaged, They Want Passive Consumers Distracted By The Spectacle Of Which I Accept I Am A Part.

No One Shuts Their Laptop After Looking At Pornography And Says, 'what A Productive Time I Just Spent Connecting With The World!'

I Used To Binge-eat And Make Myself Throw Up. I Was A Fat Kid. Obviously I Didn't Quite Master The Bulimia.

No-one Really Feels Self-confident Deep Down Because It's An Artificial Idea. Really, People Aren't That Worried About What You're Doing Or What You're Saying, So You Can Drift Around The World Relatively Anonymously: You Must Not Feel Persecuted And Examined. Liberate Yourself From That Idea That People Are Watching You.

My Mate Karl Once Told Me He’d Been Looking After This Five-year-old Boy Who – Not Knowing Enough To Have An Ironic Inflection To His Words – Said, ‘i Want Something.’ He Didn’t Know What It Was. Not ‘i Want Sweets’, Or ‘a Can Of Coke’, Or ‘to Watch The Tweenies’, Or Whatever It Is They’re Into Now (i Like Bagpuss), But ‘i Want Something.’ All Of Us, I Think, Have That Feeling. And What Heroin Does When You First Start Taking It Is Tell You What That Something Is.