A biography for Michael Parkinsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I was a purist bore.”
“Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.”
“I'm very fond of piano players.”
“For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.”
“In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.”
“It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask.”
“There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.”
“Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.”
“I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.”