The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of JOY. The unconditional love received from PETS, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, CONTRAST sharply with the MUCH trickier dealings with members of their own species.

I often think about image, and image is SOMETHING that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even EXPLAIN, you KNOW?

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I GOT it in Bristol in the LATE Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous WAY you can a VCS3.

My songs are somewhere between STORY and situation. There's also CHARACTER and mood. I'm an intuitive WRITER, both with instrumentals and songs with WORDS.

I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to HAPPEN, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I STOP to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just TRY to enter into the STORY and feel my WAY through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it.

If our SOCIETY was a LOT wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better EDUCATION systems - this is PRETTY intuitive, I think, to make as a claim.

Kids are MUCH more intuitive these DAYS. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

Any woman I know can smell a BOYFRIEND a mile away. WOMEN are intuitive: they know when a guy is INTERESTED but he's not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y WAY.

The process of shooting - of CHOOSING shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way TOWARDS what seems RIGHT.

My STYLE was ALWAYS intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. ANYTHING that smacked of VANITY to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't TRUE.