He's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

Up high, the flies are playing,And frolicking, and swaying.The frog thinks: Dance! I knowYou'll end up here below.

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.