Chan Marshall

“Now that I’m 40, I want to be happy like I was when I was a kid flipping on the trampoline listening to Van Halen’s ‘Jump.’ I want to remember how to be happy like I was when I was able to roller-skate backwards... When I walked out of the mental ward at Mount Sinai, I realized that my life was in my hands. I realized it was my responsibility to live my life." Chan Marshall

Michel Gondry





"I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?" Michel Gondry



Anthony Browne



"Children are more than capable of coping with all kinds of stories; it's adults who are threatened by the darkness in children's books. If we insist on telling children that everything in the garden is lovely, we're doing them a disservice." Anthony Browne

Larry David

"I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it’s hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood." Larry David

Christopher Eccleston

"I was a real mix as a school-kid, I was obsessed with playing football, but I also spent a great deal of time on my own being Sean Connery’s James Bond. And I used to be a character called Old Man in the Rain. When it rained, I’d sit on this old fishing basket, and pretend I was this old fellow looking out over his life." Christopher Eccleston

David Thewlis

"I’ve got this really romantic image of my growing up, but it’s true. I really did grow up in a toy shop next to a candy store in the shadow of a huge theme park in a resort town." David Thewlis

Mark Sandman

"As a child, people told me they thought I'd grow up to be a poet. You have to wonder what kind of kid someone would say that to." Mark Sandman

Karen Russell

"One of the humbling things about growing up in South Florida was that now nothing I can come up with in a story holds a candle to the true weirdness of that place... Miami Seaquarium, the Coral Castle, Shark River Valley, Parrot Jungle, Monkey Jungle." Karen Russell

Todd Sampson

''I'm still that kid in Nova Scotia thinking of how to do things differently. Money and position don't interest me, and I'm still most comfortable with the kinds of people I grew up with. It took me a long while to realise that I am who I was." Todd Sampson