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

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" We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords. "

" There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly. "

" I wanted 'The South Bank Show' to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy. "

" Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. "

" Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers. "

" Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking. "

" I enjoy what was called 'swotting' in my day. "

" I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.' "

" It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally. "

Popular Culture

" That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else. "

" If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world. "

" 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. "

" If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now! "

" More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. "

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

" There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed. "

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

" 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. "

" I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together. "

" Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. "

" I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable. "

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

" Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it's getting people nowhere. "

" In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music. "

Black And White

" I'm a class mongrel. "