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

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" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "

" Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time. "

" The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying. "

" I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good. "

" There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama? "

" I'm a class mongrel. "

" There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way. "

" I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me. "

" 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. "

" You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that. "

" In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. "

" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. "

" 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. "

" A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. "

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

" I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living. "

" I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop. "

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

" I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't. "

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