I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.