I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

When you have a kid, money matters.

All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.

Largely this is a class thing -- writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it -- being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts -- it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

If someone does something illegal on Twitter -- like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber -- then there has to be some way of censuring them.

It can't always be a honeymoon.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym -- I chose the gym.

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up.

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks -- oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.