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We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.

I'm a proud Welshman.

I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.