I love employment, and it's never, ever guaranteed. As much as I love doing animated voices, I just love working.
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
I did a lot of weird jobs, like most writers do.
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer.
As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.
The creative sector is incredibly important to London's economy in a number of different ways.
I've never had that boring office job. All my jobs were music related.
