165 Quotes by Viv Albertine

I could be completely mad and sound like David Icke, but I just find people with blue eyes colder, less passionate, and more calculated people.

I think I function well in most parts of my life but possibly not in that emotional side of my life.

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

I think sometimes men find it easier to be a carer than an accessory. I mean, most women I know in bands are pretty lonely. Guys don't want to travel around with you. I know loads of women who do it, but guys don't do it. They're not brought up for it.

It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.

It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces.

With the second book, I didn't have an ideal reader in mind, as it developed quite out of my control, this detective novel of why am I so full of anger, why did I pick up a guitar when I was poor and uneducated.

Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing, they let go like no one else.

A lot of the men I've dated have been incapable of even basic kindness.