Entertainer

It has sunk into my head that I want to be winning four or five tournaments a season.

It's all about practice and more practice. Travel to tournaments, play in them, watch other players.

It might be good to be taught the basics like your stance when you first start playing.

Now I want to push on, I don't want to be remembered for just winning one world title, I want to go on and win as many big tournaments as possible.

Being the favourite is a help.

When you've practiced hard and know you've really worked for it it's more enjoyable.

People were saying on social media, 'He's going out too much' - I got judged. That was demoralising.

I think I am a lot more entertaining than most of the other players.

I have always wanted to live my life as well as playing snooker.

I think being world number one and world champion, pressure comes with that.

Every tournament I play in I fancy my chances of winning, so hopefully I can get through the first few rounds, find a bit of form and kick on.

Joe Perry is always a big hurdle, he's always there in the later stages of a tournament. You have to be playing well to beat him, and if you do that you know you have a chance of winning the title.

Hopefully I get to the point where I get paid to party and can give up snooker.

Obviously I want to win all the big tournaments - I would hate to look back and not have won them. I also think, for me, there's something about reaching a certain level rather than getting a certain number of wins.

I don't particularly want to be playing in front of five people again. The reason I practised so hard was to get out of that.

Other people try and tweak their techniques and that, but I've just been exactly the same all my life, and I'd never change anything.

Anyone thinking me treating myself affects my snooker doesn't know what they're talking about.

The conditions are always slightly better back in the U.K. There's a lot of distractions when you play away in China and it's very easy to get on a bad run out there, with various things going on when you play.

I've got to be aware of what's going on. I can't drink too much or make a fool of myself.

I don't really think about missing. Whereas a lot of the other players are scared to miss, I think that if I pot it I'll be in with a chance of winning the frame.