I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.

The Tudors, I don't even know if I had a family back then.

We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now they're saying eat five fruits. That's evidence. You can't argue with that.

I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book.'