Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I hate to say it, but one of the worst things you could be called when I was younger was unfeminine. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
A lot of the men I've dated have been incapable of even basic kindness. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic. — Viv Albertine Ethics Copy Share Image
I'm the angriest and most empathetic person you'll ever meet. — Viv Albertine Compassion Copy Share Image
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom. — Viv Albertine Boredom Copy Share Image
It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose. — Viv Albertine Communication Copy Share Image
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 Adventure Copy Share Image
I do read a lot of autobiographies and biographies but from people who are not in my field - older women, older… — Viv Albertine Art Copy Share Image
“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I like to smell a book before I start it. I fold over the pages, write comments in the margins, leave it… — Viv Albertine Book Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always felt very free about experimenting with clothes. I was into clothes in a big way from a young age. Not… — Viv Albertine Age Copy Share Image
I'm still angry at so much - class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way… — Viv Albertine Angry Copy Share Image
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 Age Copy Share Image
I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever… — Viv Albertine Book Copy Share Image
“I decide I’ll just have to be myself. I’m sick of pretending anyway – of policing my words and editing my thoughts.… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for girls getting caught up in it and still thinking they have to define themselves and their success by… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
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 Housewife Copy Share Image
We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No,… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“At last there is an unknown element back in my life. This is how it used to be. This is how I… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“I hear a phone ringing through the thick fuzzy air. It's Thunders, asking me to join the Heartbreakers. He says to come… — Viv Albertine Determination Copy Share Image
“Then it occurred to me that there are two types of people: those who wait for the whole two lanes of a… — Viv Albertine Adventurous Copy Share Image
I very much wanted a family and children. I came to it late in life. — Viv Albertine Children Copy Share Image
I like writing because I can do it anywhere, and I don't need money to do it. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
People say you mellow as you get older, and I really haven't. — Viv Albertine Mellow Copy Share Image
Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Strive to be different and better than what is already out there if you are creating - Benjamin Clementine does that. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Directing taught me how to run a team and turn up on time - things you don't really learn when you're in… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime. — Viv Albertine Afterlife Copy Share Image
I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
When I was pregnant, I prayed that my daughter would have brown, green, or grey eyes. — Viv Albertine Children Copy Share Image
I think I function well in most parts of my life but possibly not in that emotional side of my life. — Viv Albertine Emotional Copy Share Image
It's me who fixes the roof, unblocks the drain, and changes the plug. I'm Spartacus. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between brave and mad. But whatever I do, I go for it. — Viv Albertine Brave Copy Share Image
I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
