I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.