“I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower ...” — Michael Palin Quote

“I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely.”

“I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.”

“When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.”

“Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.”

“Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.”

“I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.”