Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

Learning is always great!

There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.