I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

Asian parents generally tend to channel their children, especially their daughters, into studying and not sport.

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

I remember my daughter coming back from school one day and saying that the teacher had asked anybody whose parents were divorced to put their hands up. I felt angry but also guilty. And you feel sort of terribly responsible in that sort of situation.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.