I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.

I had to make a living, so I got happily diverted into writing about expeditions and adventures.

New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made up.

I'm fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate to think that anyone thought I was coming to preach. But art and music open up things that you can't put into words. It's about bringing joy when you go out there.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?