"London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books."

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"When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them."

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"Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him."

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"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."

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"The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle."

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"I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl."

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"The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right."

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"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."

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"Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!"

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"All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it."

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"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

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"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

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"When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination."

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"I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin."

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"One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise."

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"Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive."

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"The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from."

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