What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.