I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.