If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains
It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.
I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.
My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea. " Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.