In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same.

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?