I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

The clearer the objective, the better the performance.

True will is wishing backed by power

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.