Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
I tried to bring in the live orchestra like Bjork does. I love the feeling that that music gives me when I just listen to it. I mean it would be awesome to do an entire record like that. But unfortunately that's not my style. So rather than do a record like that I just got inspired by it.