"I don't believe in censorship."

"Don't take my tweets so seriously. I think I was saying the extremists from both sides were piling in on me."

"I think the media has a very important role to play in a democracy."

"I'm not a micromanager. I'm a macro-manager."

"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the values of the narrow elite which controls it."