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Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

If I just swam all day, I'd lose it. That's why I do so many other activities. It keeps me sane.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister did, too. And mum used to come along to meets. They had to drag me out of the pool - so there was never any pressure on me to swim. It was just something I loved doing.

I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I'm focusing on.

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

I don't swim! That's like athletic.