If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment.

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.