I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.