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I’ve always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you’ve got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what’s coming to the boil.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

You feel like a prisoner if you don’t create. You’re jailed up inside of yourself.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

My job as an actress is to make things work , come up with reasons of my own , not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.