I'm personally not fooled by the monarchy. Whereas one can set the Queen aside and acknowledge that she means a great deal to many people, that is not the case with the rest of the so-called Royal Family. We don't need to support all those people. I'm not fooled by William or Harry, who just seem like arrogant, despicable people. They're not of the modern world.

The tabloids hound me. What makes me more dangerous to them than anybody else is the fact that I lead something of a religious lifestyle. I despise drugs and c…

In 1970s Coronation Street, if we must discuss it, the inhabitants were all aspiring to gentility. Now everybody is thrilled to be as common as muck and everyb…

Most of the faces I see on the covers of American music magazines are just dreadful- people with nothing to offer the world at all. (2003)