I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.