If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.