My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

My Christian faith is my backbone

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.