"It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine."

"I love design."

"If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home."

"I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family."

"Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so."

"Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record."

"I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh."

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."