I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.

The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles.