For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now.

It would be wonderful if this world was guided by little children, because they are closer to life than anyone else.

Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.