Pneumonia

When people describe me as girlish, I’m never happy about it, put it that way. But I’ve been in this long enough to know that what I do and how people perceive it is different. And I think Alice in Wonderland might be a side to all of us, which we like to keep pure, a fantasy. The Del Toro film ( Pan’s Labyrinth ) - I was surprised by the girl character. She’s so determined by her fantasy world that it was real right to the end. It really got me. I walked straight home and wrote ’Pneumonia’.

The Guardian, April 27 2007