oh, this is like a bit from les mis , or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, just write. i mean, he didn t put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is, i didn t need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually to do that, it actually. matilda sits in culture as something that altered british culture a tiny bit, and i contributed to it and that made me think, oh, i could be an artist, notjust a clown. so ijust am very, very lucky. and i am lucky that i was able to leverage some of my losses into gains to find ways to talk about the human condition. i mean, if you re writing about the human condition, which most artists are on some level, and i definitely am