Quotes from John Peel

I never make stupid mistakes - only very, very clever ones.

I just want to hear something I haven't heard before

And death, for those who live on, is the end of a chapter rather than the end of a book, and although the dead may have no more part to play as characters, their influence may continue right though the story.

I greeted his posting with the sort of enthusiasm that would have followed the news that King Herod had been chosen to supervise the crèche. Very early on in our working relationship I ventured the notion - on air - that clouds were, if you like, poems in the sky, and he greeted this outbreak of loveliness with spluttering disbelief. here, I felt, was a singularly crass man.

Melayne looked across at Ysane, who was propped up in bed, nursing her new son. Bantry, beaming as proudly as if he had miraculously given birth himself, hovered nervously at the far side of the bed.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.