If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

Normally you can't hear you're own voice because you're talking over it.

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful!

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.