If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

You can feel very quickly as a prisoner of your past, of the memories.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.