"We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free."

"I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up."

"If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom."

"Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive."

"We worked very hard to make extensions very simple."

"When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in."

"For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy."

"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."