We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

All I've ever tried to do is get the best out of people and to bring a bit of humour into it. Unlike, say, 'The X-Factor,' which may be great TV, but has no humour at all.

Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.