"If it means just hitting big serves to Andy, or whoever's playing number two singles, then I'll do that.
And I will confess a special interest here – because, what the hell, if it's even possible to reduce the field down to a single contender, then I'd gladly say it's my favourite film.
"If you make it too rigorous, that you have to note every single meeting, then I think that militates against the flow of information between politicians and the press," he told the inquiry.
"But if the steering committee and the organisers are looking for a headline that everybody's signed up to a single deal, then I think they might be heading in the wrong direction".
I could have declined on the grounds of embarrassment and they'd have been fine with that, but by now I had caught the strange fever that infects the industry: if I was to shift a single book then I needed other authors to say very nice things.
"If we don't get real Brexit, and if we continue to have freedom of movement and we're not allowed to sign our own trade deals and we still have to pay a membership fee to Brussels, and we still have to comply with EU regulations and directives – ie we stay in the single market – then I'm afraid that is a betrayal," he said.
When I was fifteen, I thought for sure that would be my first single, but then I wrote "You Know So Well," "No One's Gonna Come," "Sleep On Needles," and so on, and realized that there's always a better song ahead of you.
The chances are that you won't know who's currently sat at no.1 in the UK charts without hopping over to the Official Charts website (it's Drake) and if you, yes you, could tell me who's riding high on the Official Dance Singles chart then I'd happily transfer you my life's savings.
