Tony's [blair] Convinced I'm Going To Find

I Have Always Been Driven. I Have Always Believed In What I Believe Very Deeply.

Friends Have Suggested That I Am The Least Qualified Person To Talk About Happiness, Because I Am Often Down, And Sometimes Profoundly Depressed. But I Think That's Where My Qualification Comes From. Because To Know Happiness, It Helps To Know Unhappiness.

This May Sound Arrogant, But I Believe That If We'd Done Teamship Better, We'd Still Be There. Where We Fell Down Was The Inability To Hold Together. We Should Have Learnt From The Great Football Teams. The Players May Not Like Each Other. They Have Egos, They Have Their Own Ambitions, They Have Different Personalities, But They Are Still Bloody Good Teams.

My Dad, Donald, Was A Vet And Had A Practice In Yorkshire. Cats And Dogs Were His Bread And Butter, But His Greatest Love Was Large Animals.

I Do Think It's Strange That I Get Associated With Iraq More Than The People Who Were Foreign Secretary Or Defence Secretary. It's Because Of My Closeness To Tony [blair], Which I Don't Regret At All. I Think That Was A Privilege.