I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.