Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel. I bought a great one in America called An Incomplete Education, which covers everything from fashion to philosophy in quite a humorous way. It's a bluffer's guide, but pretty extensive. Because I never went to university, it's my attempt to bone up on subjects I don't know much about.

I spend eight to nine months working abroad and cram in a holiday when I have the odd week off. This year, three of those months were spent in America playing …

I don't think I could see myself with someone who's famous. I don't like the lifestyle and everything it stands for. Too superficial. That attention is too muc…

Promo? It's a fucking nightmare!

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quota…