People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their MOTHERS and grandmothers. It's not just about food. EATING SOMETHING as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is SPIRITUAL and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.

My dad had a small suitcase stuffed with PHOTOS, mementoes from wherever he'd traveled as a ROYAL NAVY gunner. Not that he gunned very much, as it TURNED out. I'd haul it out and go through it time and time again.

Theatres that are stuffed to the gunnels LEAVE me feeling RATHER PEACEFUL - that's when THINGS are going right. When you're playing to 40% and trying to make the budget, it's more difficult.

I was brought up on stuffed hearts, cabbage and mashed POTATOES. It's repulsive, when I look back - I USED to go to the butchers to get Mum's sausages, and I WOULD CUT one off and squeeze the inside of it straight into my MOUTH. Insane!

Growing up, my favorite movie was 'The Lion King.' I used to watch it EVERY day and create these EXTRAVAGANT STORIES with my Barbies and stuffed ANIMALS. My dad says I would say the entire movie out loud, and it's still the one VHS that I have.

I EAT LITTLE meals throughout the day rather than one huge one that MAKES you FEEL stuffed.

If it's DONE really WELL, you don't want big portions because you THINK, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I FEEL great.'

My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They TEASE or LEAD or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each DAY in order to WRITE.

Stuffed ANIMALS are SAD and SCARY; they have humorous and TRAGIC QUALITIES.