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As A Shy Kid Growing Up In Sheffield, I Fantasized About How It Would Be Great To Be Famous So I Wouldn't Actually Have To Talk To People And Feel Awkward. And Of Course, As We All Know From Fairy Stories, When You Achieve That Ambition, You Find Out You Don't Want It.

You Have To Create A Bespoke Cultural Environment. I Know This May Be A Kind Of Thing That An Old Person Says, But I Feel To Quite A Large Extent I Was Reared By The Tv I Watched.

I Think That's What All Art Is For - For People To Express What It Is To Be Human. That's The Purpose Of It.

I Was Kind Of Reared By Television, But The Bbc, It Still Had That Thing - And People Are Always Invoking That Kind Of Reithian Idea - Where You Could Learn Stuff From It. If You Put A Kid In Front Of A Telly Now To Be Reared By That You'd Just Have A Jibbering Idiot, You Know What I Mean? Just Adverts For A Start. It's Almost Like The Programmes Are An Afterthought, The Real Business Of This Channel Is To Sell You Things And We're Just Going To Space Out Those Announcements With Some Crap To Watch.

Don't Think That The Things Around You Don't Count, Because They Do.