Viv Albertine

Musician

1954-12-01

Books by Viv Albertine

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Look at Kate Bush, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono - three really private people, but when they're on stage or when they're singing, they let go like no one else.
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It's all very well for the Kinks and Damon Albarn to sing those songs and sneer at Mr. Nine to Five, but again, they're white men, so they didn't have it very hard.
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It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.
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Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words.
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I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.
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I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.
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If my 18-year-old daughter asked me whether she should lead a truth-hunting, artistic, uncompromising life as I have done, I'd say no, don't do it. It's a difficult and lonely path for a woman.
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With the second book, I didn't have an ideal reader in mind, as it developed quite out of my control, this detective novel of why am I so full of anger, why did I pick up a guitar when I was poor and uneducated.
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