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

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

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

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.