48 Quotes by Richard Coles

Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe.

Like most people, I cook about a dozen dishes, over and over again, and to stretch the menu has meant stretching my competence to breaking point.

Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.

In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is 'MasterChef', which I have watched since Loyd Grossman's day, back in the 1990s.

The thought of having sclerosis of the synapses is alarming. I wonder if in later life I will pay the price for having overstimulated my mental apparatus in my twenties.

I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually.

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.

I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.