As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things.

Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

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.

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

For the most part, French cities are much better preserved and looked after than British cities, because the bourgeoisie, the people who run the cities, have always lived centrally, which has only recently begun to happen in big cities in England. Traditionally in England, people who had any money would live out in the suburbs. Now, increasingly, people with money live in the cities, but this has changed only in the last 20 or so years.

I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.