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 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.

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 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 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.

Be kind to yourself and others.

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

I don't want your future, I don't need your past. One bright moment Is all I ask.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

Some people leave artwork, some people do rude things, other people then turn those rude things into nice things.

So you guys fought some Daimons, huh? Wish I could. Wulf goes nuts if I even pick up a butter knife. (Chris)

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.