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If you take five taxis a day, one driver will be nasty, and the other four are perfectly nice. You remember the nasty one. But you should remember the four who were nice.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.'

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

No one pays me to be nice.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.