I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

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

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.