I've got respect for everybody I play but I don't fear anybody. Nobody causes me sleepless nights.
The more money in the game, the more players will try anything to win.
When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.
I always wear flat shoes for darts because a heel can put me off balance. I press the side of my shoe against the oche, not the toe. That puts my throwing arm a few inches closer to the board. Not everybody is the same but it works for me.
It's very special to be the first winner in New Zealand. Phil Taylor has always said to me about trying to be the first player to win when we go to a new country and I'm over the moon to do that in Auckland.
After school I went to work at a builders' merchant in Stoke. After we finished on a Friday, it was down to the Duke of York for a drink with my mates and a game of darts. Unfortunately for them I had a natural talent and nobody could beat me.
My mum played darts for the county. But only in the B team.
When I throw a dart, even when I'm looking I know if I've missed or hit as soon as I release the dart.
Sure, there's pressure when you have one dart at double top when there's a world 'championship to be won, but real 'pressure is what our troops are doing in 'Afghanistan.
I like to think I won't change as a person, even if I go on to win 20 world titles. I will still be just a working-class lad from the Potteries, the same daft old me.
The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.
When I play under bright lights on TV, the reflection off the dart barrel could be distracting. It's not high-tech stuff but I use the flame from the gas cooker at home to blacken the metal and dull them.
I'm working really hard on my practice routine which I'm really enjoying and I'm constantly trying to improve with the help of Target Darts.
I'm just trying keep focused and believe in myself, that's been my game plan.
Darts is huge in the Philippines and Pacquiao is much bigger over there than David Beckham is here. I'm happy playing darts against him but I wouldn't want to box him.
I really enjoyed working on a building site. I also worked for a couple of months in a mobile phone repair shop. That just wasn't me.
It is a disgrace. I think darts should be at the Olympics. Obviously you'd have to cut out the drinking side of the game. But apart from that there's no reason why it shouldn't be there.
Sometimes we complain about being on the road all the time, from tournaments to exhibitions and sponsors' appearances, but really it's a doddle.
If I'm on my game it doesn't really matter about anybody else.
We don't spend our lives at dartboards in the pub - we are at home practising.
