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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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I quite like cooking, but not to the extent that I look on a kitchen as a domain.
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The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.
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I've been kept from honest employment for a long, long time now. Thank God!
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Dutch food is terrible, I think. What sort of person starts the day with egg and cheese?
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I'm not much of a team player when it comes to making records, I've got to say.
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I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.
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You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home.
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I've always lived all over the place, and left Manchester the minute I was old enough to steal a car.
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To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.
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When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!
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I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.
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Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.
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From social pariah to King of the World? It's taken 45 years, so I've been able to adjust to it!
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My trouser needs are simple: a narrow leg in a dark colour, with jean detailing.
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The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.
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It amazes me there are movies about writers… such inert, uneventful lives.
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By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work and I plummeted.
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Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.
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I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you do anything.
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At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.
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Maybe there are luckier people than me, but I don't know who that would be. I feel pretty lucky. I've had a nice life - I don't know how I could be luckier.
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I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.
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