"The angry lesbian stereotype is true - Im one of them - but underneath that there is fun and frolic and we need to show that a little bit more now."

“Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

“I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

“I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.”

Source : Lemn Sissay (2016). “Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems”, p.225, Canongate Books

“I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.”

“I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.”

“At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.”

“Veggard Heggem, my word, he must have a Yamaha down his shorts.”

“I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.”