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.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.