If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.