In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.