Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

You can't build a future if you don't have a past.

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.

Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.

I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.