We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

Go out there and row faster.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Of course, I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.