I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

I've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.