If you give people a chance, they shine.

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

The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head -- supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.