If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.

For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?'

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.