It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

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

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

It's a holy city for music.