Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!

I'm not from around these parts. I'm from a little place called England: we used to run the world before you.

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights.