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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing...

I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a...

It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had...

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've...

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound...

From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

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...

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

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

Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4...

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

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