Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

The reward is in the doing of it.