This much I know: Phil Coulter

The world is full of talented losers. Talent in itself entitles you to bugger all. Don’t congratulate yourself. It is a gift from God. Congratulate yourself when you do something with it.

I have the Northern work ethic. I think it’s that Ulster Scots thing, I’m not sure, but whatever it is, I have inherited it.

I was kind of a shy child. I had two brothers and two sisters. My eldest brother Joe was a brain box and already a final year head prefect when I started in St Columb’s College in Derry, my middle brother Brian was a bit of a tearaway. The first thing they asked me was ‘are you like Brian or Joe?’ So there was always a goal.