I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.

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

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.