To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

I like naming characters.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.