I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.

You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!

I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

There is the flash in the pan, the sudden success. But continued success is dependent upon tremendous attention to detail.

If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.

I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.

Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.

I am happy now in this moment which is all there is.

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

The trick is to be there when it's settled.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.