Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.