Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

But that's hindsight for you: never there when you need it.

I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.

I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.

Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.

I hit a one-yard draw in there

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.