Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

Some people in this life think they're worth something, or that they have a right to things. I never thought I had a right to anything 'cause of the way I was broken as a child. And therefore I was sort of floating around and would get sucked into things.

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasn’t ‘good’ enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.