Michael Parkinson

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

I was a purist bore.

I'm very fond of piano players.

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.

There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.