“As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.”

Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.

I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s.

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

As a parish priest of the Church Of England.

Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.

And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,

His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:

Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

Composers can do things that weren’t allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.