THEY SAID WHAT?

“President Putin has made a number of fairytale claims for months and years now. If it wasn’t so tragic it would be amusing, but it isn’t”

- Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.

“I think there’s a growing sense that the UK in its current state is not serving the needs of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, or perhaps even England, appropriately”

- Scotland’s First Minister Nicola

Sturgeon.

“In order to carry on trying to be a comedian, you have to not get negative about travelling for hours on the train on your own or not having much money or sleeping on people’s floors”

- Stand-up James Acaster on the

early days of his career. “I am intense. Everything is to me extremely important. Every beat”

- Hollywood actress Sissy Spacek, above.

“My personal goal for this is to sing with the same intention that I always sing with, and then come away with the joy that it has given me” - Sam Ryder on how he will approach his performance as this year’s UK Eurovision entry.

“The Stones had the guts to remove themselves from society and live outside the law, but among the grit and dirt, the overdoses and arrests, there’s a romanticism that goes back to Baudelaire and Rimbaud”

- Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson on Exile On Main Street

by the Rolling Stones.