I'd adopt an older child, not a baby.

My signature dish is seafood lasagne - massive king prawns, smoked haddock, cod and a white sauce.

I love getting in the kitchen because I don't get the chance when I'm staying in hotels and on the road.

I like getting blotto at parties but I also like being sober and I hate the hangover.

I'm tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.

Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get something to be famous.

Strictly' is nothing like 'Love Island'… absolutely not.

But 'Strictly' is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism… not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.

The BBC don't pay what they pay in America or on ITV.

Buying my new house in the country wasn't about showing off or being something I'm not, like Madonna when she turned into the country lass with her tweeds on.

I go through the same trials and tribulations as anyone else.

I might be a celebrity but I've still got to have the dosh.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.

Life is a DNA software system.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.

The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

Sailing is a big outlet for me.

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.

Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.

Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society.

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.

Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.