“There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey.”

“There's a little book I'm thinking of writing — "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.”

“Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.”

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“Writing is a journey into the unknown.”

“It's strange that all birds don't fly in the same way... I've heard that the wings of aeroplanes all conform to the same formula, whereas birds each conform to a formula of their own... All birds are perhaps a little wrong, because an absolute once-and-for-all formula for a bird has never been found, just as all novels are bad because the correct formula for a novel has never been found.”

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”

“It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.”

“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”