What we are going to offer is more than a chain of budget hotels. We are providing a cheap informal place to stay for families, groups and the young to be able to experience places they would not otherwise be able to afford. It will be very close to what we always have provided.

Our image has been seen as old and fuddy-duddy. And while we have always appealed to some groups - in particular families with young children - it is true that we did stop appealing to the individual 16- to 24-year-olds. In the old days they would hop on a bicycle to get away from it all, now they hop on a plane.

The expectations of young people today are very different from 30 years ago. People don't like big dormitories and communal washrooms. They want more privacy and that is what we are trying to offer them.

The data is pretty extensive that pre-school training produces markedly increased earning ability when those children reach adulthood.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

We have two religions in ECUSA and they cannot coexist...