It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.

I don't read books.

The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune.

I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.

My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.

You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.

I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.

Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.

Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made it a bit popular when I first started; I was part of the breakaway, and I also created a monster, so I think I've done a little bit.

I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.

I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.

I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered.

In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.

Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days well its all right in football when someone scores a goal but not when youre playing darts.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.