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

I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power.

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

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 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.

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

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.