I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

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

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'