I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

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.

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.