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I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.