To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love.
At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring. . . The more boring the better.
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.
When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst
I'm finding that people reading the book [ The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroincoke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery. " People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes. "
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.