My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance the memory of it.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I did a production of 'Journey's End ' an RC Sherriff play about World War I at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said 'You know you could really do this if you wanted to.'

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political I can't do anything about that.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

The truth is I had always wanted to be a comedian but I really didn't have that kind of personality and it's a terrifying thing to say.

The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.

All I wanted was to be big to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton but it's the wrong century.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad and like to travel and wanted to be paid for it.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16 I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And more importantly I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

I had a big troupe a big army and it was a lot of fun. And after 10 years of that I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney and have the chance to work there.

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.

When I thought I was retired I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

I've done everything I wanted to do even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.