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The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal.