I prefer fact to fiction.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

I prefer fact to fiction.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.