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I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.