EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

I do see a lot of my kids, but sometimes I feel as though we have snatched moments. I turn up half way through something, or I only see her at bedtime. I'd like there to be more.

If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

Never live a day without prayer.

An unholy altered state of mindStalking with intent from behindThe needless lonely empty timeThat’s filled my life- that’s so unkind

These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.

Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads to a manuscript, which leads to a book..... just start with a word!

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

None can cure their harms by wailing them.