I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.

I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society similar to a London society a highbrow literature celebrity society.

So I'm still in my romantic stage with London I love it as a place.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

I undertake that in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

No matter where I go - London Beirut Jerusalem Washington Beijing or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better not pull them apart.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience their warmth their dedication.

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles my business is run out of London and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype in my dressing gown speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot my team travel a lot but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.

London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning set up you start the scene start shooting. Three hours later it is pitch black and rainy.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will it's money that changes everything in a city.

In New York everyone's desperate for success desperate for money and desperate to be accepted but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house nor a BMW.