I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.