In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.