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As soon as things get serious in front of the goal, I don't have any twitches... It's probably because at that moment, my concentration on the game is stronger than the Tourette syndrome.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.