I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

I do seem to look like a lot of people.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.