I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.