It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

As far as 'Syria next on the list', we made clear that it is not,

I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and how her grandmother was really sick. I remember her talking about that a lot. And she went through a depression stage, but then she also used that to lift her up rather than keep her down. It was bad, but in a way it was good because it made her become stronger.

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.