I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

It's hard to make a book episodic.

I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.