The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.

When you have a bad result, you want the next game to come as quickly as possible because a good result will make people forget about the bad result.

I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to Brooklyn. I just sort of became an adult and started speaking up for myself and not apologising for myself.