I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

First and foremost, we have to focus on what we're doing and not worry about what Bayern - or any other clubs - are doing.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

I've worked really hard on getting into the box more and being closer to the goal, which I think has brought real benefits to my game. It's definitely improved my goal scoring.

Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o, two fantastic African footballers. So successful. And very nice characters as well. I got the luck to know them personally. They helped me a lot.

Love doesn't need your permission, that's what hope is for.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.