Colm Tóibín

And the Pet Shop Boys is just all I've taken from.

He said he never listens to the Pet Shop Boys.

But I said, well, in the loop music in the car, there's a song called We Were Never Boring.

And we were never boring.

But yeah, I was never good at...

gay culture, I even use the word ironically, really.

You know, I never really took to the music.

I never took to the drugs.

And yeah, I was always wearing the wrong clothes.

I remember going to heaven once.

We had the disco in London and realizing I was completely out of place in there.

Oh, just stupid clothes.

Like I wouldn't wear jeans.

I was wearing probably cavalry twills or some rubbish I'd bought.

But whatever it was, I certainly didn't feel.

I mean, my only interest in going into someone like that was to find a nice English boy and go home with him, you know.

Like I never was interested in staying the night and doing, oh, I forgot to say I can't dance.

My father couldn't either.

Because it was a big myth at home.

Seemingly someone said to him, he said to someone that he had in his head, meaning brains, what they had in their feet.