“I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.”

“To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.”

“In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.”

“Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.”

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

“I've always been mad about cats.”

“I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.”

“I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.”

“I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.”