Ronnie O'Sullivan is the only player in history to be dominant and popular at the same time.
Stephen Hendry
Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.
In both snooker and poker, you have to play your best under pressure; I was always able to do that. I don't think it is something you can teach. Your mental strength, your confidence, your self-belief has got to be very strong. That is the common denominator.
I never dreamed, when I received a small table for a Christmas present from my parents, I would have the career that I did or achieve so much.
In around 2000, I became aware of a recurring problem of the 'tightness' around my cueing action, which somehow stops me believing that I can play the shot - even shots I could previously play with my eyes shut.
In snooker, it's very important to keep very still on the shot and allow the cue to do the work.
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.
In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.
I think the word 'yips' trivialises it; it is completely debilitating, like a cancer spreading through your game and just destroying it.
I find it very difficult when, due to a lack of confidence, I don't produce and lose matches I could have won.
Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.
I have always really loved clothes, although I am glad to say that my tastes have mellowed somewhat over the years. When I first played professionally and started to earn big money, almost everything I bought was by Versace.
It is quite surreal when you go to places up the north, like Inner Mongolia, and you are getting mobbed at the airport.
In all the years I've been playing, I've never considered changing my cue. It was the first cue I ever bought, aged 13, picked from a cabinet in a Dunfermline snooker centre just because I liked the Rex Williams signature on it. I saved £40 to buy it. It's a cheap bit of wood, and it's been the butt of other players' jokes for ages.
I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.
The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball.
I put on the tuxedo, and it's like putting on overalls - they're my work clothes. Then I go to work. I'm relaxed. I do my job.
There's no point, me turning up at the world championship as a publicity stunt and then lose 10-3 to someone who shouldn't tie my shoelaces.
These days, you can watch many different sports; you are saturated with it 24 hours a day. And young boys all want to be footballers because you don't even need to be that good, and you can still earn £100,000 a week.
I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.
It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.
By the age of 14, I had stopped doing homework and stopped studying - as soon as I had any spare time, I was up to the local snooker club. I was fortunate my parents never forced me to stop playing snooker and told me to carry on at school. Nowadays, that probably isn't the best advice. I basically had nothing else to fall back on.
For reasons I don't understand, I've always been relaxed at the table.
I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.
Judd Trump loves playing against the top players.
For me, winning was 'job done.' I would practise the day after.
I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person who got to know my wife's parents before I plucked up the courage to talk to her.
Financially speaking, I haven't ended my career in the best shape, and there are debts, as well as what is to come by way of a divorce settlement to Mandy.
If I have regrets, it's around my sons. There is no doubt they were affected by the divorce - Carter more than Blaine, I think.
By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.
In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.
When you get a trophy, why go jumping and crying? Winning's a great feeling, but everything else is an anti-climax.
I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there.
If I'm going to play, I'm going to have to give it 100%, which means I'm going to have to play in all of the tournaments that I don't like.
Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.
Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.
I like cookery programmes: Anthony Bourdain going around the world eating stuff; Rick Stein - he's another favourite.
I liked 'The Wire.'
It's easy to have a good attitude when you're flying, but you need it when you're up against it as well.
I'm not the player I was.
You have to win any way you can.
When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.
You really have to be winning by the time you get to 20 these days.
I love playing in China. The crowds here value success more than British people seem to.
It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.
It would break my heart to lose playing safe.
The quarter finals is always an exciting round because you know you're one match away from that one table situation: where the magic really starts to happen at the Crucible and where it starts to come into its own.
I am not a superstar in Britain.
In China, they appreciate someone who has worked hard. They say it is incredible to win seven world championships. I know it is, but it's a shame I have to go 10,000 miles to get the whole crowd behind me.
Even when I used to play Jimmy White in Scotland, he would have the majority of the support. That's the only time it would irk me, coming back to Scotland and people still wanting me to lose.
