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" I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different. "

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" Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it. "

" Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator. "

" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "

" Britain is undoubtedly becoming more cultural. No question of it. People who say it is dumbing down simply don't look around enough. They don't know enough. "

" I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men. "

" We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice. "

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" I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it. "

" I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. "

" We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since. "

" A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.' "

" Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work. "

" I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. "

" I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. "

" I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly. "

" Autobiographical fiction is very tricky. "

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" The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it. "

" I love writing, and I love making arts programmes. "

" The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society. "

" I don't feel like I'm slowing down. "

" To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short. "