I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

I'm not bald. I'm just taller than my hair.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other.

The way to rise is to obey and please.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.