Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.

So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.