Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.