I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

I don't really have a social life.

Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by women because that's what's in our world.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

My son has died of AIDS.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

Music is the universal language.

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.