Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.