Kate Thompson Quotes

I'd always hoped to write the story as a novel, but there was a long period when the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries] movie was stalled and in confusion. I felt frustrated creatively, and just couldn't work on the Baby material till the movie was sorted out.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.

The only thing I have ever really cared to be known as is a musician.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

I won't write a book. I haven't got a magnum opus in me.

When you love the music that you're going to play, of course you're going to do your best.

From the very beginning, I was clear that it would always be music for me.

I had a lot of notes and fragments and observations that never amounted to anything. After the Wall had gone down, so many people were writing about Berlin, I didn't have the same urgency or feel enough authority.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.