In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you're going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel and carve yourself into excellence.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.

Nature imitates mathematics.

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.