I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
“Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.”
“But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.”