I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.

From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.