The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.

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.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.