I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me.

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

I never graduated from college. While I was in a mass communication class at North Texas State University, I was on the air weekends in Dallas and knew more about major-market radio than the guy teaching. When I told him that, he failed me.

I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.

I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.

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