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Well the one thing which I've got left to do which I've not done yet is to play at the Masters. It's not strictly my home venue anymore because it's moving to the Ally Pally from Wembley but it's still kind of my home tournament so that's the one thing above everything else I really want to do.

I love the crowd!

A lot of people seem to have jumped on the bandwagon and I've got a fair amount of fans everywhere. I've just heard today that I've got a massive fan base in China which I'm pleased about. I've got a lot of fans in Germany as well.

There have been occasions where I've played a safety shot really well knowing I could've taken something on and been punished, maybe they've knocked in a long red and got back in the frame or won the frame and little things like that do wind me up a little bit. But I'm getting old and wise now so it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. If I win I win and if I lose I lose, simple as that really.

My dad got me into snooker but he only played from time to time and he's absolutely useless - if he makes a 20 break he's happy!

I'm always going to be one that goes for ridiculous shots. If they come off they come off and if they don't they don't and I look stupid. At least I give it a go.

I was making sure I was eating Weetabix in the morning! No, every match at the start of the season I seemed to get off to a good start. More often than not I win the first frame of a match but then it trails off to me going 3-1 down or something stupid like that before I get my act together. But this season I felt more relaxed. I felt that other players weren't so much scared of me, but just a little bit more intimidated with how I was playing in the Worlds, and they weren't sure which version of me would turn up - the one who would try to blow them off the table or the one who makes a few mistakes. At the start of the season I tended to play exactly how I did against Neil Robertson and try to blow everyone away and it worked for the World Open.

You don't want to keep going to the club day in day out practicing for 6 weeks because you'd end up playing yourself stupid and then you turn up to a tournament and can't pot anything. With the PTCs at least you know you're getting match practice week after week. If you turn up and get beat at least you know you've only got a week until the next one rather than 2 months so I much prefer it.

I'm not a keen flier so I'm not too bothered about going to the Australian Open because that will involve a long flight.

I put my efforts into to giving it one last go and if it didn't come off then so be it.