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"I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."
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"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

"I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance."

"How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light."
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"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."

"I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative."

"When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it."

"The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel."

"I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme."

"I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."

"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."

"I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology."
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