What is your most marked characteristic?

Being straight forward.

What is the quality you most like in a man?

Generosity, also in the spirit.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Same as in men.

What do you most value in your friends?

Loyalty and love of life.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

The tendency to a overindulgent lifestyle. Which at the same time I wouldn’t want to miss.

What is your favourite occupation?

I love food shopping and cooking.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Not having many thoughts and to go about the day without a program. Ideally, in a seashore villa with a dog and a decent bar nearby.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Severe pain or ending up in a wheel chair.

In which country would you like to live?

China/Hong Kong. In Europe it would be England .

Who are your favourite writers?

Ödon von Horwarth, Wilkie Collins.

Who are your favourite poets?

Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley.

Who is your favourite hero of fiction?

No fiction hero, but the biographies of James Cook, Ernest Shackelton.

Who is your favourite heroine of fiction?

Isabelle Eberhardt, Sir Galahad.

Who are your favourite composers?

Händel, Lemmy Kilminster.

Who are your favourite painters?

Frederic Leighton, his textiles and Jacques-Louis David, his painting of Bonaparte crossing the alps at great Saint Bernhard.

What are your favourite names?

No idea.

What is it that you most dislike?

Bores and liars.

Which talent would you most like to have?

Dance famously, from step to hip hop.

How would you like to die?

Falling asleep and not waking up.

What is your current state of mind?

Carefree.

What is your motto?

Shit, you only live once.