I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm it makes for a fast learning curve.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

I've finally learnt how to say 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

In Britain you do your job. When you do an American TV show there is a sense of being one with the crew and there is a leadership element which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain you just do it leave and say 'Thanks.'

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

I love food and I love my curves.

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve by better nutrition and better exercise.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

I thought well you might see curves there but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.