Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.

I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.