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“The stories are very much a family history. Although I haven’t said who is who in the book. The things that were going on in Iraq at the time were things that were on my mind.”

“Women are so much fun”

“People can go into great depth discovering the essence of a novel and allowing it to speak to their subconscious as a means of helping them to see their life in a more positive light or flip over some of the difficulties that they’re going through and see them in a different way”

“If I could give anybody any advice, I would say: do it for the right reasons. Do it because you love the music and you wanna make good music and you wanna have fun. And don’t think of anything outside of that.”

“Little by little, a little becomes a lot, and that’s the philosophy which governs what I do everyday”

“Get in touch with the things that light you up. What inspires you? What excites you? Try different things, and don’t be afraid to sample really widely.”

“Love, enjoyment, fun - I think those are really important ideas for me which are really worth celebrating. That’s really what I think I might be about.”

“Always, I had that in my head: I’ve got to get to somewhere where I’m going to feel fulfilled and love what I’m doing”

“There’s a lot of history that hasn’t been talked about in fiction and that’s quite sad to me. [...] I think there’s lots of rich stories still to explore in that area.”

“I think the idea of art really represented freedom for me”

“I think first and foremost, what is most important is a readership and a connection with a reader and that should be the only thing that really matters to a writer”

“In all the writing that I do, it is about discovery and understanding [...] and figuring out what it means to live in this world.”

“I think all of us keep secrets about who we really are.”

“I think working with somebody else on a creative project is going to create something that you didn’t expect. Somebody else’s creative input is always going to have a positive effect on you.”