Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.