As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around.

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.