I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.