At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.