I don't know about virtual world, I think it's more a kind of parallel world. I think the advantages and disadvantages of technology are hugely exaggerated. It doesn't make that much difference. Sure if you've got a mobile phone, you use that over your landline. But I think that life goes on and we absorb stuff.

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.