I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

There is something nice about wearing the same thing everyday, having that go-to.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.