When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape, this music. I was sort of dancing with my eyes closed and you saw me.' '...yes, I remember that occasion. I still think about it from time to time.' 'That's funny, so do I.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

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

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.