People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder.

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.

Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.

I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.