When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

There are times when I have felt the pressure, but at the moment I play cricket the only way I can.

When I have a day off, I will have a day off.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

And everybody should have at least one person in his or her life who doesn't want a damned thing from them except a bit of friendly company

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

Sometimes we have to go to the darkness alone, before we can see the light.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went?

The fearless make their own way.

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

Everything is the result of the Law of Action and Consequence but with the possibility that a superior law transcends an inferior law.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.