"You always have to be comfortable that you're doing the right thing," he says. "It might look dangerous but if you feel you're on the right track, just go for it. Intuition is like a muscle and if you don't train it, you don't improve. You need courage to make decisions and discover the qualities that are sleeping inside."
Read More"As liberal and open-minded as I am, part of me is closed off to the idea of real intimacy. It terrifies me – knowing everything that's going on in somebody's mind and knowing somebody knows what's going on in your mind."
Read More“Nobody ever offered me enough dough to sell out. If they gave me a million I would sell out but they never do that. They’ll maybe offer me 10 grand and a packet of Woodbines. With working-class artists, they hope you’ll sell out for a working-class wage.”
Read More"The women in my family were very forceful. We only watched men on the telly. I thought they only came behind glass. I had no idea you could actually unwrap one."
Read MoreYou are seeing things that are utterly different from anything in your experience, animals that live upside down, hanging from the tops of trees. Bizarre."
Read More"Culture is all the things we aren't that tell us what we are. Whether it's a painting, a building, or a song, it's those things that tell us who we are better than we could ever say in words."
Read More"I didn't realise how much it was affecting my life. I thought I was just stressed in general but actually it was the fact that I had a flight coming up. Once you take that out of the equation, life gets much easier."
Read More"There are reasons I'm not in a hotel room somewhere with a needle in my arm. I don't allow strangers exposure to the side that rips your skin off and sings the music."
Read More"There might be a couple of frames where you go, Wow, what was that?' and it feels really good. Have I ever experienced that? Sometimes, very briefly."
Read MoreYou're just a journalist from the Sunday fucking Herald and I'm not interested in your opinions, OK? So just fucking listen or you will not talk to me, or have access to my people, as long as you fucking live."
Read MoreA website for the author and journalist Paul Dalgarno, featuring interviews, longer reads, columns, humour, fiction, blog posts and poetry.
Paul Dalgarno. By Giulia McGauran.
Published 1 Feb 2023 by harper Collins Australia. Buy here.
Published in Australia by upswell publishing in June 2023. Buy it here.
Published in the UK by Polygon Books in August 2023. Buy it here.
POLY, published in australia in September 2020, Ventura Press. buy it here.
