Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die.
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
My idea of heaven is not writing.