I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.

It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.