Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

I drink juice when I'm killin' cause it's f**king delicious!

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.