'I've never smoked a cigarette in my life and I don't drink, but I write like a regular addict. I am forever influenced by falls from grace and cautionary tales that go untold, but unfold in the minds of childhood friends and idols and screams of 'nothing lasts forever,': not innocence or ecstasy, not art or poetry, not love and not life. Nothing. I am almost a virgin, with a long way to fall.'