I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.

It's still very relevant to how politics works within government, but in terms of the way into politics for an outsider, no, I don't think that would work. I don't know what would, other than... people are going online, and finding the single issue topics. I mean, look at the junior doctors' strike at the moment, or benefit cuts. That sort of cut across parties, and real pressure was felt in the government from inside and out.