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I don't go looking for new fads.

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

Dutch food is terrible, I think. What sort of person starts the day with egg and cheese?

When I sit down to eat, the greatest spice of all is hunger.

I quite like cooking, but not to the extent that I look on a kitchen as a domain.

I hate chickpeas. I like hummus but I ate that before I realised it was made out of chickpeas.

To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.

My trouser needs are simple: a narrow leg in a dark colour, with jean detailing.

A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour.

To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.

I'm dead fussy about food: I don't eat junk.

I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I did, I'd never leave the house - you'd find me in six months, dead under a pile of pizza boxes.

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.

I'm not one of nature's campers. I'm not even a glamper.

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.

Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.

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