Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

Planet Earth thought it had £10. But it turns out we only had £2. Which means everyone must lose 80% of their wealth

I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.

Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.