I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I can't keep my fingers out of any pies.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.