My wife has always supported me in my career, even when there were times when it was more sensible to get a job. It has been her confidence in me that has helped enormously.

I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't. Just because you had a series last year, doesn't mean you will have one next. But I am quite happy with that.

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.