When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.

I believe that tracks speak to me. Some tracks make me write certain music or make me feel sad or inspire me to write a sad love song. Each track has its feeling to me.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.