London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

I tell myself I am brave and yet, I still fear change. I guess it’s time to face that fear.

We can't understand the solutions other people arrive at until we understand the problems they are trying to solve.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

I just hope you have as much fun letting it spin as I did putting it together.

My driving style is alert. As a forecaster, I can't help but think about who else is on the road and how little attention they are paying to their driving.