Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?

If you're passionate about life, and you love what you do, you learn how to organize yourself and switch your various sides on and off.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

I will be the first black James Bond.

One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

You don't fight for peace. You Peace for Peace.

Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.