To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

I like to have fun out there. I work hard, and then I get to cut loose and go out and tour, and I enjoy it. I like to go out and meet the people. I love to sell books.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.