I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.