If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

Eric is a phenomenal cabinet-maker. He's the best you'll ever see.