Quotes from Noel Edmonds

I believe pulsed electromagnetism has a role to play in tackling cancer and I will always believe that.

I'm patron of Children's Hospice South West - I would love to go and play 'Deal' at the children's hospice.

Only those who've presented live television really know how difficult it is to make it look easy.

I've met so many politicians I absolutely despise.

Death is a word in the dictionary. I don't believe in that word. I think the most appropriate word is 'departure' because we are energy and you can't create or destroy energy, you can only change its form.

Believe it or not, I'm actually quite a private person.

I've seen 'X Factor' but I don't watch it. I don't watch 'Takeaway' either.

If people think I am a failure because I am not on telly every day, that is their problem.

If you love me I will promise I love you, if you are my mate I will die for you. But if somebody starts giving it me, I will give it back.

I believe doctors and scientists who say that disruption of our immune system by negative energy makes you prone to diseases of which cancer is one. That is a medical fact.

You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.

I was a diligent little boy at my primary school and then I went to public school and became mediocre at most things and pretty rubbish at others. I had a really tough time. I didn't enjoy it at all. But it made me the man I am today.

Our future is in our hands and we must stop looking to politicians to fix matters - they can't.

I think cancer - I'm not an expert or a doctor - but I think cancer is the result of undigested dreams and forcing yourself to do something that is not distinctively you.

I used to be very frightened of failure.

What we used to have in Britain was professions, and then we had industry. Then at some point, maybe with Margaret Thatcher, we suddenly industrialised our professions. And now we have lawyers with products and banks with products, and lecturers and teachers with products.

If I was prime minister for a day the first thing I would do would be to close the border. Then we could work out how many people we've got here. Then you get people out who have committed crimes and you look at others who shouldn't be here. Nobody knows how many people we've got here.

There is a theme to my broadcasting career - I've never done anything just for the money.

Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.

I'm very good at compartmentalising my life. I did motor-racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I did power-boat racing for a while, stopped, didn't miss it. I had such a good run at the BBC. I had a hell of a CV with arguably the greatest broadcasting organisation in the world. But I've never missed it since.

Someone accused me of having 'gone off the rails' but I've never been on them hence the success and happiness I enjoy on a daily basis.

I like my garden. It sounds boring, but it's not.

I always have a giggle.

For me, broadcasting is a job and I've only ever seen it as a job. I turn up, do the job and go home.