What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get inside the mind of somebody else.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.