I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

The national deficit is not rising.

A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.

I let my love for all flow through art, and I express how I feel.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it.