What makes a good captain is someone that can lead and someone who dies for their team.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.

Once a gunner, always a gunner

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

A painting is a universal language which everyone can read, understand, and interpret in his own way through the power of imagination.

The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.