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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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- My name's Jon.

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I'd pretty much describe
myself as a compulsive maker.

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I think it's fine to be
a dabbler as well though.

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You don't have to
find the one thing.

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I think it's fine just
to have a go at just

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trying anything creative.

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When I step into the
workshop, it is kind of

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like into another world.

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I do shut off everything
else that's going on.

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And it's this sort of
level, calm feeling.

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It's quite beautiful.

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It's a sort of
contentment that I'm part

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of that flow, that process.

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It's different to being
happy listening to music

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or happy out with your mates.

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It's a kind of
inner contentment.

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[BIRDS CHIRPING]

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- Whatever it is that
I am connecting with,

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I know I'm connecting
to something

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different than just
music or dance, whatever

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it is I'm doing.

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When I enter that place, I'm
connecting with something else.

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I just feel something
different throughout my body.

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It's like a different
sensation, physically, mentally,

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and spiritually actually.

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There's never been a
time when I've performed,

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whether it be in a flash mob,
on stage, theatre, anything.

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Anytime I perform,
I always connect.

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Say, for example, I
hear something I like

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or I've just created
and I'm playing it back.

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I start to see colours, shapes.

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There's even like a different
sense of smell, taste.

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Just all my senses
are heightened.

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Some people will call that
a spiritual experience.

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- I came from a broken home,
a background of foster care.

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When I was 16, I
found a passion.

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I found something which made
me feel connected to life.

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My connection to life
is when I'm on stage,

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and that's when I feel
my most passionate.

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It feels like, in the pit of
your stomach, that fire, that

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urge, that passion.

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It's almost indescribable.

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Finding that connection
and that passion with life

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gives you an identity.

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It gives you the hook to life.

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My advice for anybody is to
just take a step back and try

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and identify with what makes
you happy, what gives you

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that feeling, and
then follow it.

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It's never going to be easy.

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But taking that
first step is going

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to be the most wonderful
moment for your life.

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And it will be the
first step of many

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to a journey that makes
you feel happy and healthy.

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[BIRDS CHIRPING]

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- I guess one of
the things that is

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so much part of my
life as a priest,

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as a Christian is prayer.

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And I suppose something of
the sense of the gift of life

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comes through that and
something of the wonder.

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And so my connection with life--

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I would say prayer
is the lifeline.

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I think it's very important
for us as human beings

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to have a sense of purpose.

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I think it's very important
to have a sense of being

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loved and known.

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There's certainly
something about feeling

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that you can be of help to
someone at a particular moment

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in their lives.

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I think that gives
a sense of purpose,

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a sense of making a difference.

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That has to be a
positive feeling.

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That doesn't mean to say every
single day is always easy

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or that one's mood is
always very positive.

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But the bedrock of that
is place of affirmation.

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So that, for me,
gives what I hope

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every human being can experience
in their lives, a sense

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of being known, loved, with a
purpose, with vast potential,

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to emerge a more
rounded human being.

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[BIRDS CHIRPING]

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- Most of the time
when I'm writing, I do

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feel like I'm on another planet.

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When I haven't written anything
for a long time, I can feel it.

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I can sort of feel the--

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well, it's almost like stress
and frustration comes up,

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because I just want to immerse
myself into something else.

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I turn words into worlds.

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You go from a few squiggles
on a page or a few words

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on a screen to creating
an entire kingdom.

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To me, that's alchemy.

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I think trying out lots
of different things

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to find out what fits you
is a really good idea.

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And for me, it's
finding something

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that you are so completely
absorbed in that everything

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else disappears.

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It's almost finding
that thing where time

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ceases to have much meaning.

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[DISTANT SIREN]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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- Ever since I was
a kid, I have always

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been the person who wants to
get outside and just explore.

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I love being outdoors and
wandering and exploring.

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That sense of fulfilment that
you get from choosing to live

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the life that you want to live
minute by minute, day by day,

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you cannot put a price on it.

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It's bigger than any
salary or bonus or pension.

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It's what life is
about, and it's

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being true to who you actually
are and what you love doing.

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For me, the connection comes
through seeing and capturing

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these amazing views and the
moments of just small moments

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of beauty in the world-- sunsets
and sunrises or shafts of light

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through these clouds.

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That's what I connect with it.

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Sometimes the most
beautiful moments

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are the ones where you
only see it yourself

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for a fleeting
second and it's gone.

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Seeing how small
you are in the world

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and how beautiful the world
is, is incredibly important

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for my well-being
and how I feel.

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