Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.