In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a spirit of place, and my place happens to be London, at least once a fortnight.

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.