Let me just say, I've seen a pub or two.

England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.