I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.

I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.

I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.