I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!

[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.