If you have to resort to violence, you've already lost.

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.