I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

You can never please people enough. But you can only be yourself.

I can’t get her out of my head

They’re like chocolate-chip cookies, though. Can’t have just one.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

not fare well, but fare forward

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.