I have had the most spoiled golfing life.

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.

I suppose to the outside world I do seem slightly obsessed. But I once had a balance problem with my inner ear, and the fear loitered. Yet I have found that golf is like a yoga procedure for me: it's had wonderful, sedative, remedial qualities for my day-to-day life.

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.