I always remember my dad's blue overalls and the blue overcoat he wore in winter, and I remember my mum's big old Afro. Sometimes, though, in my memories, smudges have replaced their faces.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I've had a pretty chequered past, you know, as a kid, as a troubled kid.

My whole career's been an underdog's.

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

Making my family, friends, and close peers proud of me is the most important thing.