Melvyn Bragg Quotes
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I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.
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My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.
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I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.
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The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.
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I don't feel like I'm slowing down.
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I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.
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I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
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I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.
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We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.
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Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.