If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

I love football, football is my life.

Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.

Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player. play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

It’s really strange, but they speak to me — the notes and the chords. So when I hear other people’s music, I can feel the composer. Whoever created that, I can see in their soul.