I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.

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.