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I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.

I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.