Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
Ian McLeodI think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.
Ian McLeodI think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.
Ian McLeodI become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.
Ian McLeodYou don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.
Ian McLeodWhen you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.
Ian McLeod