Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.
There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.