I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.
When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.
My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.
We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.
When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.