He read an article that some guy had turned a barn into a hotel. That struck him. He was a lawyer but he wanted to be an engineer. Should have been. That gave him the idea to rebuild into a hotel.

The day he walked through the lobby with a live leopard on a leash is the day I threw him out.

I can remember summer days when they'd pack us (kids) a lunch and send us out of the house and we would roam around the 160 acres, only coming home for dinner.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.