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I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.

Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think? What about the authority, the authenticity that comes from bringing all your intellectual, emotional and spiritual equipment to a piece of art or entertainment whilst still being uncertain and confused?

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.