Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.