In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.
I need a strong woman who can handle the attention I get and not get upset if I cuddle a stranger for a social photo.
I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything.
I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.
People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
