But he's thrown in his "own two cents," saying: "In a weird way, hitting rock-bottom could be the best thing ever to happen to you. You always fight harder when you're backed into a corner."

And Bathory says it's not just his own experiences which inform his position. "If you read the most successful people's biographies it always has that sentence in there: 'I was homeless with five dollars to my name,' or something equally unfortunate.