I'm incredibly boring and logical, so if I have a problem I will try and fix that problem.
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I love Burgundy but my favourite is a Bordeaux - Chateau Leoville-Barton.
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There was a submarine that I desperately wanted to buy in the toy shop. My father said, 'No, you go and build it yourself.'
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Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.
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I like to say we can make anything in wood.
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I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.
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A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they've inspired people to make things - that inspiration would be a great legacy.
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My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.
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I think there can be no replacement for teaching people how to make things by showing them how to stick two pieces of wood together.