People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Light your fire.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?

Everything is going to work out-there's no other option.

I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.