Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest...

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

Through cowardice and complacency, we have stood by while the ordinary dream of owning a home has turned into a nightmare.

Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a...

I have a great life, amazing family and friends, so it's easy for people to be like, 'What have you got to be sad about?' But it's not that; it's a chemical imbalance in your brain that sometimes...

People are often a bit more adventurous with swimming costume prints; they like the idea of something a bit more jolly.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.

The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.

When you come out, and if you're saying something worth taking note of, then people will give you their ears. If you're not, it's whatever.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.

I guess whatever the director's energy is is kind of contagious on set, because, um, you know, it's a hierarchy, and we're all kind of looking to the director for guidance.

Being a fighter is no joke. Year in and year out. Especially as a world champion. All eyes are on you, and you can't go where you want, eat what you want.

I've never, ever just been attracted to men. I've never just been attracted to women.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

We in government need to ensure that the law is enforced.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

You learn as you get older what you need as an individual.

There's always that romantic Hollywood element to it. But people appreciate 'Top Boy' because it is what it is.

The fact I didn't have my father in my life shaped the way it's gone. And it shaped the way I interact with men in relationships.

People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other...

I wanted to defend my British Title but no one would step up to fight me.

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten...

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

I've always loved good music; I'm not really fussed where it comes from.