"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."
"Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct."
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Source: Interview with Q magazine, February 2000.
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