I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.

At Plymouth I wrote 'Neil Warnock's Wembley Way', a one-year diary, to show people what being a manager was like. I got lucky as the year ended with us winning promotion through the play-offs at Wembley.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There's always so much stuff to do. I work best when my diary just says 'MNEK, MNEK, MNEK.'

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was destined to see the book. I read it all in one go while I was in the shop. The book was mind-blowing.

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.

My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.