My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.