It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a series.
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.
There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
I'm not a tacky person, I think.
I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.