When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.