Jolly, I have to ask: how do you decide what to put in and what to keep out? Surely a guy who can write as well as you comes up with a lot of different endings, adjectives, meanings, etc. How do you decide whether something is worthy enough to put in your stories?

I only ask because when I try to write songs (or on rarer occasions, stories), I make them up as I go and come up with about 30,000 different ideas, all of which I like, but obviously I can't put them all in.

So....do you have some sort of test your ideas must pass before you put pen to paper?