- Nov 07, 2020
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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 a television set.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 kitchen porter.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 that propensity towards telling tales.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 got a great story.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 by customs and practice.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020