I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.
'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.
I will die, but not retire.
I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.
I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.
Please don't ask which I enjoy more - acting or hosting - because I love them equally.
Travelling, and being paid for it, is just great.
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... Maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.
One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
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.
