I had the same manager as Frank Sinatra, so I got to meet him and he truly impressed me. He had this magical aura - the whole atmosphere in the room changed when he walked in.

When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria is the same.

Robert Redford, ha ha! He's a very attractive man and I'm not. Or Noel Edmonds, as he's a friend of mine and knows me well.

I originally wanted to be a singer, but I was average. I made 18 records, but none were that great. I was in a dance band at Bournemouth Pavilion for three years, and I played guitar too.

Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing, ' so it's all good.

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

I thought I should be stronger than was possible.

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

Not everyone is going to like science as a subject.