To have a week off in the middle of the season feels like a lot longer I think, so I feel really good. Hopefully I can go out there and get some runs.

How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well.

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

I was disappointed over my dismissal, given that it was at a crucial stage of the game and I had worked very hard to get to that point,.

I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

English music is white - it evades everything.

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.