I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.

Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic.

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.