My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.

the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

You don't have to do anything.