At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

Some things are best mended by a break.

I only tweet if I discover something that's fantastic, or if I heard something really great.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

The only constant is change.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."