I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
“For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.”
“And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.”