I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

We live at the level of our language.

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

Explicitly Christian themes are regularly excluded from news articles.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Everything in life influences my music.

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

The Keystone pipeline would add to our domestic supply. It would help us with energy independence.

I'm really good at pretending.

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders