I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.
So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.
Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born.
Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.