Richard Coles Quotes

Richard Coles

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 26, 1962

Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe.

Richard Coles

Like most people, I cook about a dozen dishes, over and over again, and to stretch the menu has meant stretching my competence to breaking point.

Richard Coles

Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.

Richard Coles

In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is 'MasterChef', which I have watched since Loyd Grossman's day, back in the 1990s.

Richard Coles

I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.

Richard Coles

The thought of having sclerosis of the synapses is alarming. I wonder if in later life I will pay the price for having overstimulated my mental apparatus in my twenties.

Richard Coles

I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually.

Richard Coles

I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.

Richard Coles

I wanted to put together a Christmas album that went back to the stable in Bethlehem and the source of it all. It kind of gets lost sometimes.

Richard Coles

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

Richard Coles

The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.

Richard Coles

I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.

Richard Coles

Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.

Richard Coles

I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011.

Richard Coles

In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad.

Richard Coles

The dog collar is fascinating to people, when it doesn't repel. I've got used to being shouted at in the street.

Richard Coles

What I wear identifies me as a priest. I don't agree with all this trying to appear 'normal'. If you want that to be normal, don't take off your dog collar and then put it on again, because what you're doing is playing along with the view that wearing one makes you odd.

Richard Coles

I am loathe to say I have a strategy in the broadcasting work I do, but I do think it is possible to be a priest who has something to contribute to mainstream media as long as you aren't completely mad.

Richard Coles

I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the audience would hoot with laughter. The only time they didn't laugh was when I was doing comedy.

Richard Coles

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.

Richard Coles