It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

I don't believe my own hype, I just take each day as it comes. And I always feel blessed.

The apprehensive faculty must be scrutinised in action.

There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.