If so, stop that. Stop thinking, and act.

I don’t think that is tough, because if you have an idea of something meaningful to communicate, you can move forward on that. You might not be successful in communicating what you want to communicate, but at least you have an idea of something that needs to be said, or something that you think should be said, and I think you go from there.

No. I think when I first started writing songs, I was approaching it more literally or narratively in the beginning, but through observing some of my close friends and some of my heroes write, I pretty quickly shifted into at least starting the process from a more subconscious space, or a more instinctual space. And I’ve really come to believe that it’s all there. It’s all already there, and if you can just kind of open the window and step out of the way, at least at the beginning of the process, with your subconscious mind, you can unearth so much raw material, and then go back and sift through that and shape it.

Just circumstance. I was running a small theatre group and somebody didn’t deliver a play.

My own snoring.

In the series I’ve got massive slabs of dialogue so I had to understand the scientific principles involved and then fake it to credibility.

But if I’ve come up with any kind of mantra for myself it’s to try and put myself into a state of imaginative play.

A panic attack on stage during The Importance Of Being Earnest. Well, it felt like death.

"The love you take is equal to the love you make" – Lennon/McCartney.

But, tough, I have fallen…flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.