When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

A little showbiz never hurt anyone.

There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.