People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free acceptance speech. There just seems to be a gap in the market. I would love to be able to pull out a speech by Dolce & Gabbana.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, socially and professionally.