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
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
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
I don't believe in an afterlife. You live on in the people you influence during your lifetime. — Viv Albertine Afterlife 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
If you've written something that moves you and frightens you, you just can't take it back. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my… — Viv Albertine Guitar 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
Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing,… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I always love a song about London or about places. I think Britain could do with more of them; America is so… — Viv Albertine America Copy Share Image
I can't stand these autobiographies that start with, you know, 'I was born in Acton, and I went to such and such… — Viv Albertine Autobiographies Copy Share Image
I haven't found music comforting since the '80s, but it doesn't mean it's not good - it just doesn't work for me.… — Viv Albertine Age Copy Share Image
My favourite guitar was - I can't remember if it was '50s or '60s - a pale wood Telecaster, and it made… — Viv Albertine Beautiful Copy Share Image
With the second book, I didn't have an ideal reader in mind, as it developed quite out of my control, this detective… — Viv Albertine Anger Copy Share Image
We were very deliberately not playing 12-bar structures, blues structures, which rock musicians turned into such a cliche. We tried to... listen… — Viv Albertine Blues Copy Share Image
During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and… — Viv Albertine Childhood Copy Share Image
“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 Bad fathers Copy Share Image
Female rage is not often acknowledged - never mind written about - so one of the questions I'm asking is, 'Are you… — Viv Albertine Anger Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, girls didn't do anything. It wasn't their fault. For me and the other working-class girls I hung around with,… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I usually write at my kitchen table, nothing exotic. I don't need any equipment. I don't have to organise anyone else to… — Viv Albertine 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'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
I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate. — Viv Albertine Empathy Copy Share Image
I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I didn't have many role models or interesting women to get stirred up by until Yoko Ono came along. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
The more blows you have in life, the better, because it means you're challenging yourself. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations. — Viv Albertine Family Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don't want to get inside their heads. — Viv Albertine Criminals Copy Share Image
One of my faults is a big mouth. I tend to say the wrong thing without meaning to. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
It's amazing what your brain can do when all your senses are heightened. — Viv Albertine Amazing Copy Share Image
I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way. — Viv Albertine Ethics Copy Share Image
