I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.
I've watched quite a few matches to understand English football.
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.
I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it.
I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.
I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.
I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.
I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.
I'm quite a gregarious, outgoing person.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.