There wasn't any one PARTICULAR moment where I REALISED, you KNOW what, I'm going to be a musician. The decision more CAME from a LACK of options.

I STARTED as a ROAD cyclist and did all types apart from BMX. I started doing a LOT of competitions, and then my dad suggested I tried the track. At first the THOUGHT of falling is scary, but you realise soon that if you go fast ENOUGH, you'll be fine. I realised it was more than a hobby when I was 16.

I REALISED that if I wanted to carry on with my MUSICAL dreams, I had to CHANGE, so I STARTED meditating, and I changed my LIFE entirely.

I REALISED I'd been SPOILED at Liverpool. We were used to WINNING. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the PITCH, I learned about what to EAT and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

You NEED a STUBBORN BELIEF in an idea in order to SEE it realised.

I woke up one morning and REALISED that one of the PROBLEMS with being a MIDDLE-AGED man - of being a man in general - is the tyranny of fashion.

I thought my LIFE was mapped out. Research, LIVING in the forest, teaching and WRITING. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of COMMUNICATION. I had to USE them.

I REALISED it was only me who was STOPPING myself from LIVING my LIFE.

When I got my headshots DONE, there was this woman screaming at me to BLOW my lips out. She kept SAYING, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the SHOT, my eyes are popping out; I look TERRIFIED. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows. I USED to NEVER have any, and then I realised big eyebrows are good, and now I'm an EYEBROW fiend. EVERYONE comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

When I LEFT Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and REALISED that not all FILMS had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a LOT of THINGS for me.

When I went to ART SCHOOL, I was just having FUN. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to GET a job.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my POETRY TRYING to FIND a way of TALKING about that whereof we cannot SPEAK.