When I first STARTED playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they SAVED their rock material til the END of the night when they were REALLY STRETCHED out. It could be pretty lame.

You have to be BRAVE and ASK the QUESTIONS on the tip of your TONGUE.

I believe the best INFLUENCE you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not PERFECT, but trying to TREAT everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

I THINK so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what KIDS today have that we did not have is ACCESS to the whole WORLD.

I like to ACT. Every other ASPECT of SHOW business I FIND uninteresting.

I was DELIGHTED when Booktrust asked me to be CHAIR of JUDGES for the Booktrust TEENAGE PRIZE 2010.

I got into an ARGUMENT with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and NOTHING else. I wanted to do lots of things, not just 'Kitty' BOOKS.

I usually START from the most general to the more specific. I'll get an EMOTIONAL overview for the FILM as a whole, trying to pinpoint what the musical identity is and come up with thematic IDEAS - any ideas that identify as succinctly as possible what the film is.

I don't really READ any comics, but when I GOT casted on the show, I starting reading 'The WALKING Dead' comics. I felt like I needed a better idea of the character.