"My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'"

"People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot."

"Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts."

"Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads."

"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."