There isn't much about my life that's been particularly conventional.

I've never declined to do an interview.

Well, I get on with people who believe in something.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?