The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.