Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.