You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

What do I do now?” “I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.