If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.