More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

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.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.