Viv Albertine

I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate.

— Viv Albertine

I get the same lurching thrill now when I'm about to sit down to an egg mayonnaise sandwich and a packet of…

— Viv Albertine

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with…

— Viv Albertine

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

— Viv Albertine

Women are constantly taught to think about what other people are thinking, from those 'Jackie' magazine quizzes - 'What's he thinking?' -…

— Viv Albertine

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to…

— Viv Albertine

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

— Viv Albertine

The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you're challenging yourself.

— Viv Albertine

I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much…

— Viv Albertine

I think, often, people who do something new creatively don't benefit financially from it - it's the people who come after and…

— Viv Albertine

If I didn't live in London, I would live in Glasgow. I love the colour of the brick and the black ironwork.…

— Viv Albertine

We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No,…

— Viv Albertine

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

— Viv Albertine

“At last there is an unknown element back in my life. This is how it used to be. This is how I…

— Viv Albertine

I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot.

— Viv Albertine

I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older…

— Viv Albertine

Mum had pumped me so full of anger, I couldn't throw it off.

— Viv Albertine

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

— Viv Albertine

There are more and more of us women out there who won't be pushed around and will give back a lot more…

— Viv Albertine

I was brought up to be uncompromisingly bloody-minded by my mother. She equipped me, without knowing it, to be someone who is…

— Viv Albertine

“Daddy, I want to be a pop singer when I grow up.’ There, it’s out, I’ve dared to voice my dream, to…

— Viv Albertine

I like to rattle cages.

— Viv Albertine

If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back.

— Viv Albertine

My mother was so ignorant of what could have befallen me and was probably so exhausted - she was one of the…

— Viv Albertine

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

— Viv Albertine