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My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

Even when I wasn't playing, I always had a smile on my face because if I acted sad or mad, it wouldn't help me.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.