When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
I swim three times a week.
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I just always knew that my career would be playing music.