Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6. 30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.
The breakup of my first marriage was my first failure; I had to learn to accept that and support the people involved. The court case brought against me by three of the band was awful, but learning how to let it go, move on, and come back together as friends and creative partners was a life lesson above any other.
I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.
How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.