I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.

I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.

When I think about my children and how different their futures might be as a result of climate change, it makes me determined to do something about it.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

Forget fashion, dress for comfort and for ease of getting through security, so no hats, belts or unnecessary accessories.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting.

Music is the 5th gospel.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.