Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.