165 Quotes by Viv Albertine

During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war - the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.

I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime.

Punk inspired me.

When you've fought and fought to keep positive and to keep creative even though there was not a space to be creative, well, you show me any human who is not angry after 60 years of that.

I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it.

One of my faults is a big mouth. I tend to say the wrong thing without meaning to.

It's all very well for the Kinks and Damon Albarn to sing those songs and sneer at Mr. Nine to Five, but again, they're white men, so they didn't have it very hard.

Truth is splintered.

I'm the angriest and most empathetic person you'll ever meet.