Don't start drinking before the fifth song.

There's not enough silliness in the world. Eurovision helps to keep it balanced.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.

But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.

Worried about a skin condition? Leap smartly into a bath of porridge.

I suppose I should make a little apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this - because I was the one who did say Cyndi had won.

A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.