Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

The extreme always makes an impression.

Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.

A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets.