If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

What my day is like depends on where I am.

When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

I'm one of those people who loves to fly.

Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.