Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.

What do folk always say about Arsenal? They can pass you to death.

I am at my best when I am scoring.

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.

I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.