Tragedy Makes You Grow Up.

It's Been Such A Deep And Amazing Journey For Me, Getting Close To John Keats, And Also I Love Shelley And Byron. I Mean, The Thing About The Romantic Poets Is That They've Got The Epitaph Of Romantic Posthumously. They All Died Really Young, And Keats, The Youngest Of Them All.

I Can't Imagine People Telling Me What To Do - I Just Can't Imagine It.

I Seem To Have Been Able To Make A Career Out Of Doing What I Feel Like Doing, So Why Not Keep Doing It? What's Corrupting Is Wanting To Be More Important. You Want To Be More Arty - You Get Your Identity From That. Or You Get Your Identity Out Of Making More Money.

It's A Luxury To Be Able To Tell A Long Form Story. I Love Novels, And I Love To Have A Long Relationship With Characters.

This Is The First Generation To Grow Up On Thatcher - It's A Different Ethos. It's Money Minded, And It's The Cult Of Yourself. Now That's Fine, Except When It Falls Down, And You Can't Achieve Your Goals - Through High Unemployment, Through The Fact That You Probably Need Inherited Money To Get Anywhere.