I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.