When you get divorced, all the truths that come out, you sit there and go, 'What the f**k was I doing? What was I doing believing that this person was invested in this way?' Which is a fantastically strong humiliation in the best sense. It can make somebody very bitter and very hard and closed off, but I find it does the opposite to me.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.

I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.