He's been worn down completely by the minutia of the bureaucratic machine and the meaningless busyness it breeds.

We fill our head with distraction, with busyness, so that we don't have to ask, am I well? Am I happy? Are my children growing up right?

I still love speed. You know, I live in London, and I work as a journalist, and I enjoy the buzz and the busyness, and the adrenaline rush that comes from both of those things.

Because people at the top of the chain, people like you, I think, are starting to realize that there's too much speed in the system, there's too much busyness, and it's time to find, or get back to that lost art of shifting gears.