I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

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

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

When I have a day off, I will have a day off.

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.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

It was a strange trek — the sullen leading the apathetic, followed by the confused, all tailed by the inveterately amused.

God's address is at the end of your rope.

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

An evil life is a kind of death.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.