I love going into the room for auditions, but hate doing self-tapes more than anything.

I don't ever want to be financially reliant upon stand-up because it's so pure, and it's something that I can do without worrying about whether or not getting gigs is going to allow me to pay the...

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart...

We had to struggle for what we've learned, but we're so thankful.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as...

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

I wouldn't say I do that much extreme sport - maybe one day.

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you...

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!

I had probably never met a non-Jew until the age of 12.

It's so easy to dwell on what has happened, the missed cuts, but I would end up being upset, angry and depressed about things. So you can't do that.

There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year....

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

I'm happy that kids are getting off the streets and making their families proud.

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

How can you go from a free-flowing football game for 90 minutes to stopping for one or two minutes for a decision?

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting...

I'm not going to crack America.

I think therapy can also be a bit of a weird thing, because it's amazing, and I think it's so vital, and it's helped me in so many ways, but it also does uncover things that you probably would never...

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.

I've never been jealous of anybody's success. I've been flummoxed by it because I don't understand it, but I'm not jealous of it.

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

I'm a television presenter, television is my first love.