Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?