It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct.

The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God’s love

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -

I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?