‘I don’t think I ever wanted to be a musician. I wasn’t good enough. But I did find that, once you’re a teenager and you’re going to parties and becoming sexually active, the best seduction tool is being able to play the first movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata on a piano.

‘It doesn’t matter what you achieve in sport, fighting or academic prowess, to the woman, you being able to play is what matters.

‘The first time that happened was when I was 16 and at a party. It was in quite a nice house and they had a Bechstein, a walnut one. I played a bit of Beethoven and probably some Scott Joplin as well, because I was quite into that back then. It worked for me a few times. It works better than any car I’ve ever had. I think it’s a complete myth that cars are a great tool for seduction.’