I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.