“Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.” PeopleYearsPersonsStrangeCoupleDivorced Author:Mike Colter
“The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMomentsTalkingAudiencePiecesMinutesReaderListenersThis Is Me Author:Kate Tempest
“Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.” Knowing Author:Kate Tempest
“A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.” PeopleKnowsStoriesWrittenSettingSettings Author:Kate Tempest
“When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.” PeopleStoriesEnvironmentHappeningsWork Out Author:Kate Tempest
“Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.” IdeasMomentsThreeStageGainsEngagedDimensions Author:Kate Tempest
“When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.” KnowsFeetComfort Author:Kate Tempest
“In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.” KnowsYearsMeanDonePastCultureWorryMusicianLondonSomewhere ElseNever Change Author:Kate Tempest
“When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.” IfsThinkingFirstsTwoIdeasPlayFormNeededRapBarsThirtyVersesRhymeSixteen Author:Kate Tempest