Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.

Football is my guilty pleasure.

It’s no mystery, it isn’t luck. Success is a result of your obedience to specific principles, rules and laws

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing.