I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.