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If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.

I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.