"The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes"

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer"

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come"

"Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity"

"London is a modern Babylon"

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession"

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime"

"I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?"