In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.

A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight")

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.