We grew up during the 'peace and love' of the 1960s, only to discover that there are wars everywhere, and love and romance is a con.
I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.
We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my personality, because I'm self-taught.
It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.
I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.
I never thought of myself as a strong person until I wrote my first book, and people started to say, 'You're a survivor. You're such a strong person.' It never ever occurred to me.
I get the same lurching thrill now when I'm about to sit down to an egg mayonnaise sandwich and a packet of plain crisps as I used to get when I fancied someone.
I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate.
If I didn't live in London, I would live in Glasgow. I love the colour of the brick and the black ironwork. I think it's got such atmosphere and is extraordinary. I met great people there.
Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words.
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older artists, Miles Davis.
Directing taught me how to run a team and turn up on time - things you don't really learn when you're in a band.
I was brought up to be uncompromisingly bloody-minded by my mother. She equipped me, without knowing it, to be someone who is creative rather than an entertainer. Not many girls are brought up like that, to never rely on a man. To not be a housewife, not be a mother.
Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.
Women are constantly taught to think about what other people are thinking, from those 'Jackie' magazine quizzes - 'What's he thinking?' - to being a grown adult.
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.
I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.
I usually write at my kitchen table, nothing exotic. I don't need any equipment. I don't have to organise anyone else to rehearse, and when I do a reading, lots of women and girls come, whereas gigs are dominated by men. Not against men, but I want to communicate to women.
I copied John Lennon; I copied a bit of David Bowie. It's such a shame, and I'm so glad that now young girls have so many different role models in all different walks of life.
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.