I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.

Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.