Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques.
I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
I don't tour to make money: I do it because I love it. When I'm putting a tour together, I'm not sitting with number-crunchers, having them tell me I can't do this or that.
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.