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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst. I don't want to participate in the existing debate that's going on about whether or not you should be able to have as many guns as you want to have or that guns are even the problem.
You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.