Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.