I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

I am quite fussy about clothes.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.

I can't recall the sound of your voiceStill, I bring flowers and meet the skyask it to hold me, too.

Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.

I've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not.