I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.