Michael Parkinson

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

I was a purist bore.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

I'm very fond of piano players.

It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.