If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

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.

we all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Success is to achieve some of your dreams that you have dreamed as a boy.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

Trane was the perfect saxophonist for Monk's music because of the space that Monk always used. Trane could fill up all that space with all them chords and sounds he was playing then.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.