I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day.