I do greatly admire Australian artists.
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?
No time like the present
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.