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I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on. ”
Everyone loves feeling comfortable. But it's actually completely useless. ”
Once you've made peace with the fact that you're hardly ever going to work on anything that you're actually good at, the only thing that you can do is get good very fast on everything you have to do. ”
When the market turns down, a lot of people lose jobs... and that's the time people become entrepreneurs. Downturns end up being the best times to start companies. ”
I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in one way or another since I was 14. I go full-on in and get obsessive. ”
Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest. ”
People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified. ”
Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands. ”
I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now. ”
I'm a band dictator. ”