I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because he thought it would be a sort of bad influence. People say, 'And you didn't go?' They're so surprised because the me they know would have gone. And I say I was very much a 'yes, dear' wife.
It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married.
Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.
Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.
I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!
I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.
I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing.
My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.
If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.
The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.
I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.
I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.
I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
I would happy for someone to download my music.
I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
