As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

We were not the victims of ancestor worship. We had the benefits of a fresh start.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."