At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

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

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

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

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 think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.