The only magazines I read are car magazines.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.

I was living life like in one of those Disney movies, where I genuinely believed nobody was ever going to die

On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.