I have got a reputation to protect.

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure the products that you're bringing down in price are ones that they are buying every day.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

When 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.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.