It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.

In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.