I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

You think I look like a teletubby?

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.