I felt that needed to be addressed: the idea that anything a man tries to do properly or thoroughly is dismissed as either metrosexual or OCD. But why can’t you be practical and artistic at the same time, which was considered perfectly normal in the Renaissance? James May Read Quote
The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can’t put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt. They believe it’s endearing and cute to be useless, whereas I think it’s boring, and everyone’s getting sick of it. James May Read Quote
I don’t want Jeremy Clarkson anywhere near my shed or my toolbox or my piano. He’s interested in fashionable restaurants and celebrity gossip – I’m not interested in those. James May Read Quote
A lot of television assumes the viewer is a bit daft, and I don’t think they are. James May Read Quote
I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it. James May Read Quote
I hate the idea of people nicking my stuff, but in all honesty, I’m pretty well off. If a genuinely desperate man on his last gasp nicks my coat from the pub on a freezing night, well, he’s welcome to it. It’ll change his life. Mine’s only inconvenienced by having to buy another one. James May Read Quote
I’m only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it’s all just been a massive fluke. James May Read Quote
