I'm the type of guy that I wear my heart on my sleeve. If I'm in a good or bad mood, then everybody knows it.
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
In terms of picking album titles or picking track titles, I think very carefully on all of that because that is the entrance point.
I've noticed that a lot of people do much better when all their resolutions are framed as 'Yes. ' Not something like, "I'm going to give up French Fries," but something like "I'm going to eat three vegetables every day. " "I'm going to hug more, kiss more, touch more. " "I'm going to listen to more music. " They do better when they frame things in the positive. And I think this is just part of human nature.
I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.
Do we mean love, when we say love?