Hints and tips:
...If my body could be dropped in the Serengeti and be fed direct to the hyenas, I’d be delighted. But I can’t quite believe that nature is as beautiful as it is purely by the process of evolution....
...Name your favourite river.It has to be the Clyde....
...I’d have gone into the corporate world....
...But I’d have less to write about in my psychological thrillers if we behaved better. Name your favourite river.The Thames. It runs through the heart of everything....
...I wish I’d learnt to keep my composure earlier — it’s taken me until my thirties. And I wish I could go back and invest time in instruments other than my voice — guitar or piano....
...I’d read my work to her, and she’d listen intently with her head cocked — at least for a few minutes. She died last year. I cried for weeks. Risk or caution, which has defined your life more?...
...When it came to being in a band, I’d go and see a lot of bands and artists, and I’d take away things I didn’t want to do or be: reverse mentorship. At art school, a teacher called John Ross....
...The writer Charlie D’Ambrosio, my teacher at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, who was brutal with our stories but always because he believed we shouldn’t turn away from what scared us....
...Not in any conventional sense where we’d have a sense of self or resemble who we are now. Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?...
...I didn’t really decide to become a professional musician until I was 18 or 19, and I guess I wish I’d been a bit more serious about my musical studies when I was younger. I just played for fun....
...I’d be terrified at the idea of surviving for eternity. Eternity is unbelievably long. The boredom would be unbearable....
...I’d have had more children. I have one amazing son, Daniel, and I regret that he doesn’t have siblings. In another life I would have loved to have a large family....
...I’d like to have a little more patience. Not having the ability to sit back and relax and let things happen at the pace they’re meant to is my biggest weakness. What drives you on?I love music....
...Name your favourite river.The Clyde. What would you have done differently?I’d have left the music industry after three or four years rather than 10....
...I’d swim in it up in Buckinghamshire, but the Thames down in London, I’d never jump in. I like it because it has two sides: a dirty side and a nice, clean side. What would you have done differently?...
...I felt if I jumped in, I’d be OK. I’ve swum in it every year for years now. What would you have done differently?I can’t think of anything major....
...I’d say the existence of suffering, especially when inflicted by one set of human beings on another. Name your favourite river.The Demerara in Guyana. What would you have done differently?...
...I’d like to go back and tell my 17-year-old self, leaving rural Ireland to go to university, that everything would be all right....
...For every thing I’ve done, book or film, there are probably two or three undone and I’d love to be given time to do them all. Do you believe in an afterlife?...
...The desire to write is a kind of obsession quite religious in its intensity: I’d do it whether I was published or not. Do you believe in an afterlife?...
...We can wish we’d done things differently, but that doesn’t mean there’d have been a better outcome. ‘Tough Crowd’ by Andi Osho is published by HQ....
...That’s where I would go — because I’d be a cat. With the possibility of bringing some humans there for a weekend. Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?...
...But it’s entirely possible that if I’d started in my twenties, I’d have been rejected as I’d have been very bad at it, and then given up for ever as it would have hurt too much....
...I’d been called to attention by jealousy. Who was or still is your mentor?...
...He’d give you a task that was slightly too difficult, and throw you at it. I had no portfolio, no reporting experience, he just liked the look of me. Talk about a lucky break!...
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