Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you want? I'd be lost if people like that got their way and there was nothing unpersonal in the world. I like to know that there are big places without windows where no one gives a shit. You need confidence to go into small places with regular customers... I'm happiest in the Virgin Megastore and Borders and Starbucks and Pizza Express, where no one gives a shit and no one knows who you are. My mum & dad are always going on about how soulless those places are, and I'm like Der. That's the point.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.