In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.

It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.

Every big dream starts small.

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

I'm not very glamorous.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.