David Tennant

"Did you actually go out and seek the daughter of a Doctor to mother your child?"

"That's exactly what I did, yes, and there were very few candidates available." David Tennant

Elizabeth Fraser

 "I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. 
Gaping, I think was my main skill. Staring out of the window." Elizabeth Fraser

Patrick Ness

"I'd just hate for the only people to speak to be the ones who are unafraid to be the loudest. The loudest are only part of society, and often not always the part that you want to hear". Patrick Ness

Charlie Watts

"When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that." Charlie Watts

Peter Gordon

"Kids were pretty cruel. They'd call me scab head, which I was. I was a really short kid and when I got into a scrap, the only way I could fight back was to cling on to them. That was my technique. But kids pick on you and then they get bored and move on to someone else. When I was being called scab head I just thought, well I am. It didn't really affect me." Peter Gordon

David Duchovny

"There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience."

David Duchovny

Francoise Sagan

"I had read a lot of stories. It seemed to me impossible not to want to write one. Instead of leaving for Chile with a band of gangsters, one stays in Paris and writes a novel. That seems to me the great adventure." Francoise Sagan

Pelle Almqvist

"I have a friend who is writing a big bible on punk aesthetics. The last picture in the book was supposed to be a picture of Demi Moore on the cover of Architectural Digest, where it says "At home with Demi and Ashton" and she's wearing a Sex Pistols T-shirt. That's basically the end for punk." Pelle Almqvist.

Lena Dunham

"It’s possible to feel like a creepy, pervy producer even if you are a 26-year-old girl." Lena Dunham

Townes Van Zandt

"I've a 1989 Chevrolet Pick-up that I love as much as anything, with a bed built in the back where I live quite a bit... [It'll] go anywhere except across the ocean. I can't wait to see it again. I'll see it in about a week." Townes Van Zandt

Craig Cash

"I watch Grand Designs and that Boardwalk Empire... it's a bit slow, but who am I to say anything's slow." Craig Cash

Johanna and Klara Soderberg

"Our parents would treat every painting we did as if Picasso had painted it. They gave us massive egos. We would sing and perform in front of our parents at any given opportunity, and make tapes of ourselves. We must have been so annoying." Johanna and Klara Soderberg

Tim Winton

'I don't see optimism as an emotional state or an emotional dispensation. It's a discipline that you adopt because the alternative is despair.'' Tim Winton

Matt Berninger

"I passed Leonard Cohen between two tents at a festival in Barcelona and he complimented my hat. Those were the only words he said to me: 'Nice hat', so that was a big moment for me. In reality though, it was a stupid looking hat. I wore it for a few days, Leonard Cohen says, 'Nice hat,' then I get home, my wife sees it, and says, 'You look like an idiot.''" Matt Berninger

Garrison Keillor

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together." Garrison Keillor

Peter Sellers

"I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot... I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working." Peter Sellers

Emmylou Harris

"The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child." Emmylou Harris

Wayne Coyne

"Most of the coolest people you'll ever talk to will get down to the most basic thing that we all share: just gossipy, funny bullshit. I've realised that's where the truth lies. The bullshit is the truth." Wayne Coyne

Spike Milligan

"The cliche is the handrail of the crippled mind." Spike Milligan

Martin Freeman

"I was quite fetishistic about forcing my tastes onto people. You're basically finding out if she's going to be a runner or not. 'If you like these songs then we've got hope, but if you don't then it might be a short-lived thing.'" Martin Freeman