'I suppose, in the perfect world, you would have two selves: one who is cool and reserved and can keep himself together at all times and one whom you can send out to make a fool of himself in a testing-the-water kind of way. Better still that you could have a rack of these extra selves to send out, one at a time, that could then be discarded once they had made an a**e of themselves, leaving the cool one in some safe place marshalling the action.'