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Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.

An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.

No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.