We keep to a pace we can cope with. As soon as you take on staff, you're working twice as hard to pay their salaries. We're never going to make a vast fortune, but we're doing what we enjoy.

We had some students who put on Radio 1, but the sheep didn't like the thumping beat at all. They just stood at the door in confusion.

I wish people would not use him as a means to justify criticism of Damien Hirst and others. There is room enough for everyone and his is a voice that will be heard by those who perhaps do not wish to hear that of Hirst. But that doesn't mean they both cannot exist.

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize

The past week our bullpen threw a lot, especially with the doubleheaders in the (Rainbow) tournament, and we have five games this weekend, so I figure if I can finish the game off, I can give 'em a little rest so they can go out and get the next four games.