There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

All the heat should come my way

I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

Can we rename [Taylor Swift] Pinocchio Swift?

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

My favorite place in L.A. is Manhattan Beach. It's an intimate, friendly little beachside city within a city-smaller than most of its neighbors, so it reminds me of a British seaside resort. If my three teenage sons are in town, we'll play some cricket on the flat, hard sand where the water breaks, just to really confuse the locals!

What is it about this ideological dream of the right to bear arms that overrides any other rights, I mean the rights to not have your children killed at school?

Don't chase women, they will chase you. They are like horses in a pasture: if you don't go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.

Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.

I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag