It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings.