I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.
I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That's all you want out of a bloke.
I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.
Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'
I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.
I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.
You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.
Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.
Children give life a reason to be - they make life.
I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.
I won't eat anything I can't spell or wouldn't tread in.
The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'
The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.
I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.
I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.
I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.
I get so annoyed at people not looking after their parents. The deal is when we are growing up they look after us and as they grow older we look after them. That's the deal.
