The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.