I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.